Clarion 1979-04-06 Vol 54 No 18

The Priest returns for another in his long line of pre-fund-raising-concert front page photos.
Priests foretell unpredictable concert
Upper-level course requirement raised
by Joy Nannette Banta
The Academic Policy Commit-tee
(APC) has decided to imple-ment
a change in the graduation
requirements, making it necessary
to have a miniumum of 15 courses
at or above the intermediate 200
level.
The decision was made after
reviewing the results of a survey
taken last year of faculty and
students by a sub-committee
chaired by Olaf Olsen, and a Study
done out of the registrar's office.
The survey showed that both
faculty and students were willing
to have the change made, while
the study indicated that there was
a definite need for the proposal.
Thirty per cent of the students
were graduating with less than
half of their classes in the upper
level. In one case a student had
only eight or nine upper level
courses and received a degree.
"We believed that this was
academically unjustified," said
Lynn Fauth, chairman of the
APC. "The average number of
upper level courses students take
is 15, but we felt the need to raise
the standards," he added.
The impact of this decision is
harder on some departments than
on others. The hardest hit is the
theatre arts department.
Doug Briggs, chairman of the
theatre arts department, expressed
concern about the implications of
the decision, but yet endorses it.
"At first the committee recom-mended
that the theatre arts
department be listed as an excep-tion
to the new requirement, but
we were opposed to that," said
Briggs.
"We would rather have it
recommended and noted that peti-tion
is available in exceptional
cases," he said.
There are two reasons why the
theatre arts department is in this
predicament. First of all, the
department is structured like a
pyramid. There are a variety of
sub-disciplines in the department
that build on top of each other to
form the entire curriculum.
"We have a broad base of 16
courses, seven are firs1 level
courses," Briggs said.
The second reason is that all of
the first level courses in the
department are concern-oriented
(CO) courses. "We have moved
everything down, since we became
an independent department (apart
from the speech/communication
department), to serve the rest of
the community. Our CO courses
fill students' creativity require-ments,"
said Briggs.
The implication of all this is
that the department should
restructure their whole cur-riculum.
But the idea comes at a
poor time since the department's
total new curriculum was just put
into effect last fall.
"We are not overly concerned
about the new policy," said
Briggs. "We have four years
before the petitions would start
coming in, since the policy won't
take effect until next year.
"Our department has under-gone
such a 'dramatic' change
that we are actually excited about
the decision'. The new policy just
gives us a challenge to face," said
Briggs.
New Senate
adds Brown
Barsuhn
"I'm really excited. We have an
enthusiastic, high quality group of
people this year," said Steven
Hoswell, shortly after the first
meeting of the new student senate
Tuesday.
In what was mainly an indoctri-nation
session, the new senate
authorized a $200 subsidy for the
library's change machine, and de-cided
to build racks- for distri-buting
the "Twin Cities Reader."
According to Hoswell, the
machine cost the library over
$1300 in installation and operating
expenses, several hundred dollars
over the projected cost. "The re-sponse
to the change machine has
been phenomenal," said Hoswell,
"they took in over $600 in Janu-ary
and February."
cont. on page 3
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Vol. 54 No. 18
Bethel College
April 6, 1979
Random House Handbook
to be Bethel standard
by Jay Stuart Russell
Faculty members have approv-ed
a proposal by, the academic
policy committee that would en-dorse
"The Random House
Handbook" as the style guide us-ed
in all courses taught at Bethel.
Professor Lynn Fauth, writing
coordinator and chairman of the
academic policy committee, said
that "the book was approved as
part of an ongoing effort to up-grade
the student writing level."
Fauth said that a major prob-lem
with student writing in the
past has been a confusion of
sources.
The college did not recommend
or endorse any one guidebook on
writing, and this created a lack of
consistency between Bethel pro-fessors.
"Unless a faculty member re-quires
other writing forms or
books, 'The Random House
Handbook' will be the guide or
authority," Fauth said.
Many Bethel students have al-ready
purchased the book, as both
the freshman and sophomore
classes were required to buy the
book for their Writing and Re-search
classes.
The book is available in the
bookstore for $8.95, and the li-brary
and writing center have
copies on reserve.
Artist Johnson demands perfection,
lounge mosaic meets unveiling date
by Mark Rentz
The newly completed 34-foot
long mosaic entitled "Sun
Through the Clouds" literally
came through some stormy condi-tions.
Construction of the 4,665 tile-pieced
mosaic was postponed
twice because of tiles that did not
meet the the design requirements.
"Arrigoni Borthers, the tile
manufacturers, sent some blue
tiles, but I rejected them because
of problems with their surface,"
said Dale R. Johnson, associate
professor of art and designer of
the mosaic.
A few days before the dedica-
Lion ceremony, the project was
finally finished, but the green tile
at the bottom of the mosaic was
the wrong color—it was too light.
Johnson at this point faced the
decision of whether he would have
the green tile replaced with a
darker green and not unveil his
work at the ceremony, or allow
the mistake to alter the mosaic's
effect.
He again rejected the tile and
had them take it out. Fortunately,
Arrigoni Brothers found the cor-rect
color green in their ware-house,
which would have taken
weeks to remake and fire in their
cunt. on page 4
High Priest and the Pharisees
will perform their first concert this
Saturday night at 8 p.m. in the
gymnasium.
The concert is a benefit for the
Student Missionary Project
(SMP). Admission is $1.50.
"This will be the most enter-,
taining evening of the year,"
claimed band leader John Priest-ly.
"Our concerts (formerly the
group was called Priest and the
Scribes) have previously been
well-attended."
Priestly said the concert will in-elude
hits from the 50's as well as
humor. "It will be an unpredic-table
concert," he said. "The se-cond
half will be different than
anything that has been done at
Bethel in the past.
"We will be unveiling Bethel's
most talented personality," he ad-ded,
and said, "and it's not me."
One of the members of the
band is what Priestly said is "a
clone of Buddy Holly."
Priestly also said that a mystery
TV personality will be making an
appearance at the concert. "This
will be the greatest concert
Bethel's ever seen," he concluded.
on the inside...
time for Zeke,
page 3
new Clarion editor,
page 5
hang gliding,
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MIRROR,MIRKOR, ON THEWAIL, IS MY FLORIDA SW4/04 0014E. ALREADY/?
the Soapbox
el X21" CLAIR'
Opinion
Solve own problem,
stop stealing spoons
Though it seems a small matter, it's an embarrassment that anything
needs to be said on this subject.
The problem is theft, and it's not the work of outsiders. It involves
many Bethel students.
The facts are these: the cafeteria has lost 80 dozen spoons so far dur-ing
this school year. It is also missing dozens of glasses, probably 100
salad bowls and numerous other pieces of dining ware.
As the year began every rack of glassses in the kitchen was full. Now
15 are empty.
This means, of course, that these implements must be replaced. The
cafeteria has had to purchase 60 dozen new spoons since September.
Realistically, we can assume that the culprits are those who use the
food service; some of these, to be sure, are numbered among those who
complain at cafeteria prices.
Apparently, students who carry off the property have one of two atti-tudes.
They may be ignorant and take things without thinking about it,
or they may cognitively decide that their petty theft won't hurt anyone.
We could try to argue rationally. We could go on about how small in-dividual
thefts (face it, that's what they are) rapidly total up to major
financial losses.
But the problem is not an intellectual one. It is a moral one. Student-swho
take property consciously are blatantly stealing. They mal call it
"borrowing" until the end of the year, but who needs the stuff then?
And students that take property unthinkingly without returning it are
at best inconsiderate. Either way the problem is theft. Need we bother to
note that we do call ourselves Christians?
Of course it's elementary. The problem is wrong, that's simple. The
solution is simpler still. Bring it back. Don't just applaud, do something
Thanks, old Senate,
for job well done
As the new Student Senate administration moves in it seems ap-propriate
to credit the old one with some accomplishments.
It was an average year, not full of spectacular innovations. The
Senate did not make a big splash. But then, who ever said it was suppos-ed
to?
The past senate did its job and did it welt. It fulfilled its function ad-quately
and accomplished a few other things on the side.
Senate brought the coin machine to the library and repaired the type-writers
there. It initiated Koffee Klatches and leadership breakfasts to
open channels of communication.
It also began the student directory and the Chautauqua free university
program.
Senate also raised funds in support of Voice of Calvary, the bowl of
rice program, and orphanage in the Philippines and the John Firth High
School in India.
For these and other jobs we say to the Senate, thanks for the good
work.
The Clarion is published weekly by students of Bethel College. Letters to the editor should be
typed, signed and sent to PO 2381 by the Sunday before publication.
April 6, 1979 Bethel College Vol. 54 No. 18
David Shelley. editor
Suzi Wells, news editor
Greg Smith, feature editor
Paul Olsen, copy editor
Thangi Chhangte, copy editor
Debbie Bunger, production editor
Phoebe Morgan, production editor
Joy Banta, editorial assistant
Patti Backlund, business manager
Steve Erickson, sports editor
Carol Madison, sports editor
Betty Logan, arts editor
Shelly Nielsen, columnist
Rick Chapman columnist
Juan Ramos, cartoonist
Doug Berkey, photograph(
Dear editor:
I write this letter after deep
introspection. I feel compelled to
share the mixed reactions that I
have to Staley Lectures delivered
by Dr. Anthony Campolo.
- First I want to say that so much
of his content was relevant and
addressed a most pressing issue.
But I was also frightened.
I was frightened by the way the
Bethel community permitted itself
to be manipulated in response to
his style of delivery, specifically
the chant chorus "Today's Fri-day,
but Sunday's coming."
I have no fear of the gospel be-ing
preached, but I do object
when it is delivered only to enter-tain
a crowd. That we were excited
by the performance was evidenced
by the laughter that followed.
I was frightened to realize that
as the Jonestown people had per-mitted
themselves to be
manipulated in their reponses, we
also had slipped into that error.
And ironically, we let this happen
only a week after a chapel board
publicly examined the Jonestown
incident.
I am reminded of the axiom,
that "a man who doesn't learn
from history is doomed to relive
its experiences."
Without wishing to throw the
baby out with the washwater, I
would like to divorce the style of
Dr. Campolo from his content.
What Dr. Campolo told us was
well received. After the first
chapel, the overwhelming
response was "great chapel, the
best we ever had. I really needed
that."
But I remember a similar recep-tion
given to a message delivered
by Mrs. Malcolm in November.
And similar messages were
presented to our chapel by Dr.
Richard Mouw, Dr. John Perkins,
and Doctors Westphal • and
Amberson. What did these
messages accomplish?
Except for a. brief period of
reflection and guilt, the most
noticeable result was nothing.
Have we failed to learn anything
from chapel? Or are we trying to
live on sugar induced spiritual
highs, reinforced periodically by
fresh doses of others' spirituality?
I think there are a few things we
should have learned. First, the
Christian commitment we need to
make cannot be an immediate
complete actuality, but is a grow-ing
process that involves time.
We become frustrated when we
view the immensity of the prob-lem,
and lose sight of our objec-tives
after a short time of a seem-ingly
fruitless intense battle.
Second, a need exists in which
we can program or structure a pat-tern
of development. Dr. Amber-son,
in addressing this problem at
the seminary chapel, presented a
chart which related various stages
of actualized commitment of dif-ferent
degrees in our spiritual
lives.
I believe alterations are required
to fill the needs of Bethel students,
Dear editor:
. Lately we have heard a lot of
talk about the correct Christian
lifestyle and what it really means
to give of ourselves for Christ.
We have been told to take up
our cross and follow Him. We
have heard suggestions on how to
love our neighbor as ourselves and
give to the many people who have
much greater physical needs than
and an excellent starting point is
to take up Dr. Campolo's sugges-tion
that we form support cells,
upholding each other emotionally
and spiritually by encouragement
and prayer.
Our commitment could then be
deepened to deal with the pro-blems
which face our Bethel com-munity
members, and then be fur-ther
developed.
This task involves work and
prayer. However, I believe it is the
responsibility of this communit y
to develop such a program.
And that responsibility is not to
lie in the school administration,
asking them to provide a program
for us, but because we are talking
of our own commitment to our
Lord, should be thought out by
ourselves.
Bethel is a beautiful place to
grow as a Christian, but that
growth means more than making
an empty pledge to God. I pray
that we will "work out our salva-tion
with fear and trembling"
(Phil. 2.12) and thus grow in our
Lord and Savior.
Love,
Larry Meegan
we have.
Perhaps it was in response to
the recent emphasis on such things
that the Student Senate Public Ac-tion
Committee decided to spon-sor
a basketball marathon and
raise money for an orphanage in
the Philippines.
Although I think ,it's great that
Bethel seeks to contribute to an
cont. on page 4
`Good' dollars need
`good' means
page two
time I had no idea that it was my so many time conflicts for the
weekend to produce a column. individual, but our conflicts tend
But then the shell shocked me—I to be more fabricated than ge-was
harshly reminded that I was nuine. At any given moment
up for another exposition. countless avenues are open to us;
My mind objected within me, whether, consciously or not we
"But I don't have enough time!" constantly decide to do one thing
And isn't that the same manner in instead of another.
which we object all too often? The. Too many people run around
obvious problem with the phrase is flippantly employing this 'phrase He did more in one lifetime
a matter of volition—when all is as if they are time's most severely than most men could accomplish
considered don't we always do affected victims. This is well por- in three, and his life was ab-what
we want to anyway? trayed at Bethel in what I call the breviated at forty. Yet he was able
Both the rapidity and complexi- "who got the least sleep?" syn- to seek God daily in vigor and in-ties
of American life have created drome. tensity through meditation,
RA's develop an extraordinary prayer, and in fellowship with
ability at this presentation of others.
pseudo-martyrdom—and they The stud and dynamic quaky of such
never need any sleep. a life is no coincidence. He sought
The game is simple. Just sit God and God made his time
down with a couple of friends and meaningful... but I don't have
determine who has had the least enough time!
amount of sleep in the past week. It bothers me when I recall the
The winner invariably drinks moments of time which I allowed
more coffee. to place me in chains when I
But time is not persecuting should have been capturing the
sr—jai people. The fact remains— time. But Paul exhorted the Ephe-we
all have the same amount of sians to be extra careful, to
time, whether 24 hours, 1,440 redeem the time—making the most
minutes, or 86,400 seconds a day. of life's opportunity.
Take your pick. That is wisdom living ,knowing
We don't need more time, but what we should be doing at every
we desperately need better moment. Time becomes a bless-priorities.
ing when we capture it and release
A great irony is that in the midst its potential bondage. Don't ask
of our many activities, we delude "Is there enough time?," but "Is
ourselves, believing that we don't this what I should be doing?"
have time for God. Time never lacks for those who
At this point I am reminded of capture it, who live life in the
Dieterich Bonhoeffer, truly a danger of every moment, and who
fascinating man! His life bustled look to the Giver of Time to make
with tremendous energy and an it meaningful. Time only lacks for
abundance of experience and ac- those who waste it. "...but for
tivity. those who love, time is eternity."
do..." Yet the uniqueness of time
lies in its movement; time is not
static and cannot be held in any
human container.
Every time I breathe I ex-perience
a moment of time, but
that very moment moves inex-orably
to the next and it is gone ir-retrievably.
But I am troubled not because
time moves, but because we have
constructed an enormous fallacy
about time's movement.
The other night I rambled
through the cafeteria and at the
Sue Stone and Steve Hoswell have stepped into their new ad-ministrative
roles.
Zeke's Zetesis
Time: under control or in control ?
by Rick Chapman
"Time is...too slow for those
who wait, too swift for those who
fear, too long for those who
grieve, too short for those who re-joice..."
In the song "Time in a Bottle"
Jim Croce articulated what many
might consider the chief quality of
time: its elusiveness. And so they
say "time waits for no man."
Along with Croce many lament
"there never seems to be enough
time to do the things you want to
New Senate
cont. from page 1
In other business, the senate ac-cepted
Caryl Brown as secretary
and Scott Barsuhn as treasurer to
join Hoswell and Susan Stone,
vice-president, on the executive
board.
Other members of the senate,
which is elected every year in full,
include senators at large Mike
Messer, Denny Johnson, Tony
Anderson and Julie Wright;
senior senators Carol Bowman,
Phil Thompson and Bill McCau-ley;
junior senators Todd Mag-nuson,
Shari Goddard and Pat
Wheeler; and sophomore senators
Cheryl Thomas, Rickie Troxel,
Steve Penner and Cindy Berglund.
Also in the first meeting, mem-bers
were appointed to the various
internal committees of the senate.
Hoswell and Stone successfully
carried through on one campaign
promise by abandoning the public
relations committee. A standing
committee chaired by Hoswell is
in charge of senate PR.
The president pro tern of the
senate will be elected next week.
All senate meetings are open to
anyone and begin at 6 p.m. in the
AC lounge every Tuesday.
GUITAR INSTRUCTOR
IN RECITAL
Tim W. Johnson, instructor of
guitar, will present a recital April
17 at.8 p.m. in the seminary cha-pel.
Tim will be assisted by Dan
Lundberg and Glen Larson,
guitarists, Linda Johnson,
soprano, and Jerry Nelson, "tenor.
Tim's repertoire will include
pieces by Bach, Handel, Schubert
and Scarlatti, and a "Sonata for
three guitars" that he wrote in
1975.
Trinity Baptist Church
2220 Edgerton Street at Hwy. 36
St. Paul, MN 55117 774-8609
SUNDAY
8:30 AM Worship Service
9:45 AM Sunday School
11:00 AM Worship Service
6:00 PM Evening Service
Bus Schedule
Old Campus 9 AM
Fountain Terrace 9:15 AM
New Campus 9:30 AM
Student Senate
Senate bids adieu with trail of fine achievements
by Jim Torgerson Board of Regents, presenting stu- nels of communication. the projects mentioned here are
dent , perspectives in discussions A Public Relations Committee far from complete.
A commercial, advertising a with administrators, monitoring was established in the Senate. Its One more note on the "accom-bank,
shows an interviewer asking the various publications and the responsibilities include publish- plishments" of the past year. It is
people, "What do you think of Campus Coordinators, and allo- ing lunchtime leaflets and helping only honest to admit that any
when you think of your bank?" eating funds to deserving student other committees in their public succuss we might have enjoyed is
The people, somewhat puzzled, groups. relations work. the result of a group of dedicated
would confess that they did not Other projects include the coin Koffee Klatches and Leadership senators working together. It has
often think of their bank. machine in the Library and a short Breakfasts are other examples of been a privilege working with
If the bank is doing its job peo- term student loan program that is the Senate's attempt to foster bet- them.
ple do not have to think about it. presently in process. ter communication. Finally, I think the Senate's
Only when a bank is performing - In response to student requests, The Creative Service segment of most important function is to be a
unsatisfactorily do people give the senate has arranged to distri- our platform had three compo- facilitator of and participant in
much thought to their bank. bute the Reader. They helped nents: Student Directory, Chatau- your educations. The social
In preparation for this column I finance some additional book- qua, and a strong emphasis on re- awareness that you can gain from
asked a number of students what drops. sponding to the needs of the the various projects of PAC and
their most memorable impression When Tannie and I ran for world. AAES is very important, especial-of
the recent Senate was. office last year our platform was The Senate's interest in re- ly if it changes your thinking and
My only explanation for their divided into two parts; Credible sponding to social concerns was your life.
almost total ignorance is that our Structure and Creative Service. expressed through the Public Ac- Omar Khayyam, a Persian poet
constituency must have such con- With the assistance of the senate tion Committee and AAES. born in the 1 lth century wrote the
fidence in the Senate that, like the and many friends we were able to Expressions of that concern in- following whimsical lines.
people in the commercial, they implement most of that platform. elude funding a group visiting "Myself when young did
feel no need to think about it! The Credible Service section of Voice of Calvary in Mississippi, eagerly frequent
Whatever your awareness, how- our platform was primarily con- Bowl of Rice, supporting an or- "Doctor and Saint, and heard
ever, the Senate feels it has had a cerned with seeking to improve phanage in the Philippines and the great argument
profitable year. Without going in- communication between the John Firth High School in India. "About it and about: but
to all the details, I will try to sum- Senate and both the administra- Through AAES we have taken evermore
marize some of the major ac- tion and the student body. positions supporting the establish- "Came out by the same Door
complishments and emphasis of Mark Twain noted that, "One ment of a demonstration farm in as in I went."
the past year. gets such wholesale return of con- Haiti, a boycott of Nestle's pro- Hopefully the Senate can con-
First, we have worked hard at jecture on such trifling investment ducts, purposeful stock divesture, tribute to the process of not only
fulfilling the obligations outlined facts." and concern about child care. presenting more information but
for us by the constitution. Because one of our goals was to This listing is not a complete ac- also of convincing students to
This includes representing stu- prevent conjecture by providing count of Senate's actions this "come out by a different door
dent interests and concerns to the facts, we established several chan- year. At the same time, many of than in you went."
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"Sun Through the Clouds" brightens the student lounge in the new LRC addition.
the Soapbox
Intelligent life in chapel questionable
Dear Clarion:
I think I have made some scien-tific/
sociological discoveries that
could be important for Bethel's
intellectual/spiritual life.
In finding a balcony seat a few
Dear editor,
I would like to give a sincere
vote of thanks to you and your
staff for the fine job you have
been, doing this year. Your job is
not an easy one, and I feel that
many on this campus do not
realize how hard you work.
Sometimes, I find myself disa-greeing
with a letter to the editor
an article in the paper. I realize
that this is inevitable. But I do not
throw away the whole paper
because I disagree with a small (or
large) part of it.
The paper has frequently been a
source of spiritual encouragement
to me. The article on Paul Greely
was a monument to the kind of
faith we all need. And I can often
Good dollars
cont. from page 2
orphanage, I believe that the
means by which the money was
raised destroyed the intended
good.
I do not believe God is glorified
when a community such as Bethel
pays to watch 10 people literally
ruin themselves physically but
won't drop a dollar in the SMP
offering.
We are the body of Christ. Why
then do we allow part of the Body
to suffer? Who would pay to have
his arm broken?
If this is the surest way of rais-ing
money for such a good cause,
then students here at Bethel ought
to re-examine their true reasons
for giving.
I watched the marathon for
several hours. I saw what those
people went through. I realize that
they did it willingly and weren't
forced, but only because of our
warped sense of what giving
means.
God demands a cheerful giver.
Is this cheerful giving? Let's aim
for God-glorifying methods of
raising money in the future.
In Christ,
Kim Kreps
weeks ago for a talk by the Har-vard
astronomer on the possibility
of intelligent life on other planets,
I happened to sit in front of a
handsome young man and three
members of his harem.
It afforded me the opportunity
look to the Clarion for some bit of
encouragement to seek the highest
possible values in my own spiritual
walk.
But I especially want to uphold
you on your Opinion column of
February 23. For a long time, I
have been deeply saddened by the
Student Senate "Beef Board." So
much of what is said there is so
unnecessary and really very
damaging to our sense of com-munity
and our Christian values.
You clarified for us what is im-portant
here. We do need to
criticize and ask questions about
important changes that need to be
made.
But we need to love each other
deeply in this. We need to be sen-sitive
to others' concerns. We
need to stretch ourselves to see the
other side in love.
This is very hard to do. But all
of us, in committing ourselves to
the Lord Jesus Christ, have incur-red
in ourselves some inevitable
standards which are a part of our
commitment.
My deepest prayer for everyone
at Bethel College is that the Lord
would help us to forget our
"hardships" and "problems" and
remember FIRST what the Lord
has done for us. We have so much
to be thankful for. How can we
complain after all He has done for
us?
In Christian Love,
Jan Wigdahl
Dear editor,
I would like to commend Pastor
Spickelmier for the idea of having
a prayer chapel. While most pray-er
requests were well-thought out,
several of the pleas for assistance
in "National and World con-cerns"
were ironic if not ludi-crous.
In "Bethel concerns" we have a
request for "the development of a
world view of Christianity for stu-dents,
staff and faculty," yet far-ther
down on the list there is a re-quest
for "the safety of Ameri-to
make the following observa-tions:
1. The average chapel/convo-cation
speaker is allowed by some
approximately three minutes to
tickle their fancy. If he or she
fails, all rights are forfeited.
2. As arrogant as it is to walk
out of chapel because one's fancy
is not tickled, it may be preferable
to staying and providing corn-petiton
for the speaker. Perhaps
every speaker should be instructed
to stop after five minutes so that
Mosaic unveiling,
cont. from page 1
kiln. They were able to finish the
mural the day before it was unveil-ed.
"It looked like an impossible
situation," said Johnson, "but I
really believe that the Lord wants
us to try to do our best and not
settle for something if it isn't
right. I think that's a good lesson
for students to learn, too."
The mosaic is beneath the north
window in the new building.
"Northern light," said Johnson
at the dedication service, held in
the new recreation room, "is the
light that artists always want to
work by. It is the most constant
cans and missionaries" in Uganda
and North Yemen.
"Only Americans? What makes
us special? Are we a "people of
God"? Why were Americans
singled out in six of the 10 request
of "National and world con-cerns"?
Are we superior to the British,
South Americans, Europeans,
etc., or to the Iranians them-selves?"
How ethical is it to pray
for the safety of the American
businessmen who are taking ad-vantage
of every Ungandan or Ira-nian
available?
disappointed listeners can leave
together.
3. A handsome young man can
elicit giggles from his admirers
with amazingly little expense of
wit.
4. Even bovine-types talk less
when a pretty, color slide is on the
screen than when they are con-fronted
with numbers, graphs, or,
heaven forbid, concepts.
The last observation leads me to
a suggestion. Might not those with
short attention spans be issued
light.
"The mosaic was designed to
create an active, stimulating,
abstract landscape in mosaic tile
that would bring visual excitement
and color into the lounge area."
Johnson explained that the
mosaic was, "really an abstract
landscape: out of the clouds is an
array of light and it illuminates a
section of a grassy field, which the
Psalms symbolically describe as
humanity; and the light is the light
of the world.
"There are many levels of inter-pretation,
but I hope that it can
initially be seen as a bright, ex-citing
design. Then I hope the
Ironically, we are to pray for
the Nestle Boycott a few minutes
after we pray for the American
businessmen. As far as the safety
of Americans goes, there are plen-ty
of them around the world that I
would rather not have to apolo-gize
for.
You may accuse me of being
over-critical of a small blunder.
But this harmless error reflects the
immature attitude that most
Americans have toward foreign
countries. We aren't God's peo-ple.
(Thank heaven—what a poor
witness we would be!)
pastels and paper at the door (I
dare not say crayons—that would
be satirical) so as to entertain
themselves with bright colored
shapes?
The speaker was concerned with
the question of intelligent life in
outer space; I was more concerned
about the question closer to
home.
Dan Taylor
people will reconstruct the
metaphor."
"The design," said Johnson,
"didn't come from a vision, or a
burning bush. It just came from
sketches and hard work."
Dennis Arrigoni, of Arrigoni
Brothers (mosaic tile setters) said,
"We started three different times
but had to pull off for various
reasons.
"We initially began in January,
and what took three months ac-tually
only took three weeks of ac-tual
labor. If you want a ball-park
estimate, I'd estimate $7,000
worth of labor and material went
into the project."
We should be praying for the
wounded and for the comfort of
those who have lost friends, bro-thers
and sisters. Let's pray for
the spread of the Gospel, whether
it be through Catholics, Baptists,
Lutherans, or other Christians.
Let's not bow our heads before
the Lord and plead for the safety
of the American mercenary, the
American capitalist, the American
(and not other) missionary, the
American military, the American
government or most of all the fat-tening
of the American billfold.
Doug Barkey
Student praises Clarion,
pleads for love and unity
Prayer mirrors ethnocentrism, avoids world concern
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Paul Olsen contemplates his future as the next Clarion editor.
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by Terri Sue Hanson
For over 60 years the Bethel
Women's Auxiliary has been serv-ing
the college and seminary in a
very quiet way. Lori Kiel, presi-dent,
said, "We don't create a
thunderous roar—we're a service
organization."
The auxiliary is governed by a
board of over 20 women. Most of
the women are from BGC chur-ches.
For the first time, however,
Dischinger, Murray and Bjork-lund,
along with students from
other consortium colleges, study
topics such as penal reform,
Carter's foreign policy toward
Latin America, and the economy.
"We have met with the director
of federal bureau of prisons,"
Bobbie explained. "We also have
also been able to interview people
in and out of government, in-cluding
congressmen and
senators' research aids"
by Thangi Chhangte
"I am the shortest editor since
Paul Healy," announced Paul
Olsen just after the Communica-tions
Board selected him to be
next year's Clarion editor.
This year, Paul is copy editor
and was also a staff writer last
year. Paul said he applied because
his friends told him to. He claims
to have had no journalistic ex-perience
apart from his work at
Bethel. Outside of the Clarion,
last November's issue of the Focus
printed Paul's article on
languages.
According to Paul, his success
in the News and Feature writing
class led to his involvement with
the Clarion. When he transferred
from Normandale Community
College last year, he said, "I was
assigned to a literature class I
thought would be boring. So my
advisor suggested I change to
News and Feature and I agreed."
His basic goal for next year is
"to provide an excellent com-munity
paper, by secular and
religious standards." Paul admit-ted
that the Clarion has not
always been the best but that he
hopes to continue the improving
trend which former editor, Bruce
Olsen ('77-'78), began.
Some of the changes Paul plans
mostly involve the staff. He will
basically have four people on staff
where each person would be
responsible for two pages. Duties
would include assigning stories
and working on layout.
He also plans to have two
photographers. Another addition
will be a graphics person to
"design the artsy stuff and make
the paper look good."
"We won't have any foreigners
on staff next year except Shelly
Nielsen—she's a Mormon," Paul
explained, concerning his choice
about the staff.
Other changes include an open
column for faculty and students,
especially for those with a flair for
fiction. Paul and his staff also
plan to have a small issue ready
for Welcome Week to "introduce
the freshmen to Bethel."
Overall, Paul said that he hopes
to have more in-depth coverage of
Bethel events, including better
coverage of prominent chapel
speakers.
As for further improvements,
Paul said, "What we need is feed-back
from people who don't like
what we do, and from those who
want something new. We need
suggestions."
With a Cross-Cultural Corn-munications
major, a non-standard
specialization, Paul
plans to go to seminary eventual-ly.
Besides working for the
Clarion, Paul has done some
"politicking." This spring, he and
Ted Anderson campaigned for the
Ignorance and Apathy party (we
don't know and we don't care)
and received one vote.
Asked whether he thought he
won or lost, Paul replied, "It's
hard to say because I don't know
much about politics and I don't
care to find out."
So far, Paul's choices for his
staff next year include Suzi Wells,
associate editor, and Steve
Erickson and Carol Madison,
news and sports editors.
by Suzi Wells
The phrase, "integrating faith
and learning," is coming alive in
both classroom and work ex-periences
for three Bethel students
in Washington, D.C.
Bobbie Dischinger, Lou Murray
and Cheryl Bjorklund are study-ing
in Washington this semester
under the Christian College Con-sortium
American Studies Pro-gram.
a non-conference member is on
the board this year.
"The board isn't exclusive. It is
open to any woman who believes
in and is interested in Christian
higher education. Because of that,
several board members have kids
attending Bethel."
The auxiliary's purpose is two-fold.
First, it tries to stimulate in-terest
and concern for Bethel.
Secondly, it unites women in a
The students, who live in a dor-mitory
two blocks northeast of the
capitol, have access not only to in-fluential
administrators, but also
to the Library of Congress for
their studies.
Students work in internships
every day, which adds to their
academic experience. The area of
the students' interest determines
the type of internship.
Lou Murray is working in the
Development Assistant Services of
World Relief Corporation of Na-tional
Association of Evangeli-cals.
"I've been able to go to con-ferences,
seminars and
workshops," she said. She has
learned about needs for further
development in rural areas of the
world, in nutrition needs, as well
as about U.N. efforts and help for
refugees.
Besides learning about the
social needs of people around the
world, Lou has also gained aware-cont.
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CHAPEL SCHEDULE
Monday, Sing and Share
Tuesday, Tekle Selassie
Wednesday, Pastor Jim
Spickelmier
Thursday, Easter Concert—
Dean Palermo directing
Friday, Good Friday, no
chapel
fellowship of prayer and service
for the school.
To accomplish its purpose, the
auxiliary has several committees
that carry out specific projects.
The infirmary committee, for in-stance,
does voluntary work such
as typing for the bloodmobile or
helping football players with
check-ups.
The mailing department labels
all the mail that goes out of
Bethel, such as the Focus and
alumni news. The women label
approximately 90000 pieces of
mail each year.
The special projects committee
takes on a special project annually
and encourages people to support
the project financially. This
month completes a two-year
$5000 project to decorate the din-ing
room off the new coffee shop.
The room will be decorated with a
Swedish flavor and be used for
small dinners, board meetings and
faculty lunches.
In the past, the special projects
committee has decorated the
prayer chapel, installed the
walkway and lighting between the
college and seminary and donated
kitchen equipment and library
books.
"Our `Licleem Stick'em prog-gram
is a stamp project that funds
our international student scholar-ship.
We put Tekle Salassie (a stu-dent
from Ethiopia now at the
seminary) through four years at
Bethel completely on stamps such
as S&H Green stamps and Gold
Bonds."
O
Now, however, instead of com-pletely
supporting one student the
fund is dispersed to many
students.
"Our biggest emphasis is on
prayer for students, faculty and
administration. Each year at our
annual banquet, we take the
freshmen class and pass out their
names to the women. These
women then pray for their par-ticular
student all year long."
Students intern in political atmosphere
page five
Case challenged by free-flight adventure
by Joy Nannette Banta
Imagine yourself 1500 feet off
the ground with only an
aluminum tube and a piece of
cloth holding you up. Then im-agine
the sensation of actually fly-ing.
If that sounds like your kind of
adventure, you belong in the
ranks of the many hang glider
pilots, one of whom who is here at
Bethel—Bruce Case.
Hang gliding has gathered
many flying followers in the past
years, gaining popularity especially
on the West Coast where high
cliffs for excellent take-offs are
readily available.
But, being a native Minnesotan,
Bruce Case has found places in
this area to practice his sport.
Why does he do it? "It is the
closest thing to pure flight that a
person can get," said Bruce.
This year will be his third sea-son.
He was interested in the sport
and when he found out that his
brother-in-law taught hang glid-by
G.W. Smith
When the Chanhassen dinner
theatre produces a play, one ex-pects
the best. And when the play
is the popular musical Camelot,
one expects better than best.
The play is, in fact, about per-fection.
It is a tale of chivalry, of
knights in shining armor and their
pursuit of goodness and purity.
And it is a tale of romance.
But when expecting perfection,
one is often disappointed. And so
is the case with Camelot.
Oh, it's not as drastic as one
might think. The play was hardly
a calamity. In fact, it was quite
delightful. But it wasn't perfect.
The most curious and unfor-tunate
fault with Camelot was a
tendency for over-acting, parti-cularly
on the part of Lancelot,
played by James Werner. Werner
had apparently developed an un-canny
knack for creating discom-fort
with the one character desig-nated
as the purest of knights.
In scene three, for instance,
when Lancelot first entered, he
appeared noble and mighty, a
stately knight clad in full armor,
off to restore the image of
knighthood to what it once was.
But in scene four he tried to act
too good and his credibility as an
actor diminished.
There were other notable dif-ferences.
Guenevere, played by
Cynthia Wells, belied the image of
a quiet, genteel and submissive
queen, and was instead full of
spunk, at times belligerent,
courageous, bold, kind and grace-ful.
Arthur, too, seemed different
than the king I once read about.
Initially, he seemed too immature.
Yet, as the play developed and he
grew into maturity, he also
became more kingly.
As Arthur recalled the legend of
the sword in the stone and the in-cidents
leading to his inheritance
ing, he decided to give it a try.
Aside from that, the lessons were
free.
"I have only had about 20
minutes worth of lessons. From
there on I have taught myself," he
said. -
The first question most people
ask Bruce usually is, "How does it
work?" He replies that, "It works
on basically the same principal as
an airplane. The main difference
is that the wings are flexible."
Hang gliders are made of air-craft
quality tubing with a dacron
wing (similar to a sail on a sail-boat).
Since they are made with
aircraft quality, "few accidents
can be blamed on the glider
design. They are usually well
made," said Bruce.
The major focus of hang gliding
is weight shifting. "The wind has
a good deal to do with it but most
control is determined by how you
shift your weight," he said.
A person is harnessed into the
glider in a horizontal position
while in flight. "Like laying face
of the throne, the emotions
became real, and his majesty
began to shine.
Perhaps the most delightful
character of the entire play was
that of Merlyn the magician
played by Paul Ballantyne. Wear-ing
a floor-length sorcerer's robe,
the shy, wise, mysterious old
magician followed Arthur's pro-gress
as king of Camelot like a sort
of grey-haired, silver-bearded
guardian angel.
Early misgivings over character
differences vanished as the play
developed. Oh, at times Lancelot
stepped beyond his character and
Arthur occasionally seemed too
humorous for a king. But per-sonality
differences aside, the play
became an intensely exciting
drama. -
Lancelot, as a symbol of good-ness,
advocated an adherence to
noble Christian principles. Guene-vere,
in her initial meeting with
Lancelot, rejected those princi-ples.
The two clashed and conflict
ensued.
That conflict, between the pur-suit
of goodness and the continual
American Studies, cont. from
ness of U.S. bureaucracy. In get-ting
experience that would be im-possible
on campus at Bethel, Lou
said, "I'm finding out what peo-ple
outside of an evangelical con-text
are like."
Cheryl is interning with the
State Department, working with
the Israeli desk. She witnessed the
signing of the Middle-east peace
treaty and attended press confer-ences
with diplomatic officials, in-cluding
Moshe Dayan of Israel.
Seeing the world leaders strive
for peace greatly impressed
Cheryl. she said, "the devotion
these people have to bring peace is
tremendous. Behind all the picture
taking and glamor, they're so
committed and involved."
Bobbie is working in the
down in a hammock," Bruce said.
"You can completely let go
because you are all harnessed in
—from shoulders to knees," he
added.
To take off you have to run
with it, and your feet are your lan-ding
gear.
Once you are in the air, you are
not at the mercy of the wind as
some believe. "As long as the con-ditions
are good, no strong winds
or bad weather, a person can keep
the glider under control," said
Bruce.
Bruce's latest accomplishment
flickering of evil, intensified into a
tightly knit love triangle involving
Arthur, Guenevere, and...Lance-lot.
While the individual scenes ade-quately
captured the emotional
impact of each situation, the
beautiful musical numbers as sung
by the lead characters created
strong empathy for each of the
characters involved. Indeed, the
musical performances were superb
as in the end when Arthur, torn
with love for his wife and his corn-rads,
resolved to follow chivalry
and goodness, the life source of
Camelot.
"We are less than a drop in the
shining sea," he said thoughtful-ly,
"But some of the drops
sparkle, really. Oh yes, some of
them do sparkle!"
And so does Camelot. Dif-ferences
aside, Camelot is one of
the most delightful plays I have
seen in the past two years.
And as I close my eyes and con-sider
goodness, my ears still ring,
"In Camelot."
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Washington Office on Latin
America (WOLA) and now sees a
great need for educating the peo-ple
there. According to one
diplomatic source, education
assistance is even more important
than the need for food.
The Washington experience
made the students more aware of
ways Christians can become in-volved
in world affairs. Classes
taught by John Bernbaum, direc-tor
of the American Studies Pro-gram,
emphasize practical applica-tion
of the Christian faith.
"The director assumes that you
are a Christian serious about ap-plying
your faith to life exper-iences,
thinking things out and ap-plying
a Biblical perspective,"
Bobbie said.
on wings is his recent involvement
in the filming of "Foolin'
Around," an adventure movie
filmed in the Twin Cities.
Bruce was the pilot of the
powered glider used in the chase
sequence near the climax of the
film. He flew the glider through
downtown St. Paul and up the
Mississippi valley.
One scene takes the hang glider
and pilot through the large stained
glass window at the top of the
basilica in St. Paul.
"I had to fly as close as I could
get to the window and then make
"I've struggled this semester
with my responsibility as a Chris-tian,"
she added. "I now feel a
greater pressure to live out my
Christianity, but I believe it is the
responsibility of every Christian."
"It's good to go to another en-vironment,"
Cheryl explained.
"You're out there in an alien en-vironment.
It's just you and the
Lord."
"The world is big and the Lord
is big," Cheryl added. "Our duty
is to try to broaden our understan-ding
of the people in the world."
Applications are now being
received for students interested in
the American Studies program,
available in the dean's office.
a very sharp turn away from it,"
Bruce said. "They did the actual
crash through the window in the
studio with a stage set-up," he
continued.
A person couldn't tell it was
Bruce in the scene but he was
there, filling in for the star.
Stunts such as these make the
sport sound quite dangerous.
Bruce said, "For some it is dead-ly,
and others can do it till they are
50. It depends on the amount of
respect given to the sport—just
like any other sport or hobby."
Bruce has that necessary respect
for the sport—he's never gotten
"even a scratch."
After making the initial invest-ment
for a glider, $900 to $1,500,
there are only incidental expenses,
depending on any extra in-struments
or equipment one might
want, making hang gliding a sport
worth respecting.
"It's a great feeling flying free
way up in the sky. Why ruin the
fun by losing respect for it?" said
Bruce.
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Theatre:
April 6, 7, 8 The Runner Stumbles
Theatre in the Round
April 6-29
Two for the Seesaw
Actors Theatre of St. Paul
April 6-8, 13-15 To Kill a Mockingbird
Chimera
April 12, 14
Birth and after Birth
Olympia Arts Ensemble-
Music
April 6, 7
La Traviata
Minnesota Opera Company
Guthrie.
April 7
Sir Peters Pears
Mozart, Britten, Barber, Martin
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
April 8
Janacek, Bartok, Schubert; Musicians from
Minn. Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber'
Orchestra, Walker Art Center
Dance
April 8
A Gallante Arte
15th and 16th century dance
Concentus Musicus Court Dancers
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PAC assists school in India
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by Sari Winans
One of the four internal com-mittees
of Bethel College's Stu-dent
Senate, the Public Action
Committee (PAC), is seeking
financial aid for needy Indian
students attending a Christian
school in Assam, India.
PAC's desire is to serve God by
concerning themselves with social
problems around the world. This
year PAC's focus is on human
rights—an individual's right to
food, shelter and education.
Currently, PAC is sponsoring a
program which gives Bethel
students a chance to support these
needy high school students in
Assam.
John Firth Christian High
School has an enrollment of about
400, and is located in North
Lakhimpur, Assam. The school
has been instrumental in touching
the lives of young people in that
area.
About 80 students are in crucial
need of financial aid, for they
Prospective cheerleaders for fall
sports, football and soccer, may
try out on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in
the wrestling room. Women and
men are encouraged to try out,
said Jacqui Kadey who is organi-zing
tryouts.
The job will require physical fit-ness
and will demand time, she
added.
"We don't want this to be like
high school or junior high," Jac-qui
said, "but we are probably the
only school in the MIAC without
cheerleaders.
"We're concerned about school
spirit," she added. "This is very
by Ronn Krepps
The official gatherings of the
1978-79 Bethel hockey team were
over as of April 3, when the team
had it awards banquet. The eve-ning
included presentation of let-ters
to 21 players, recognition of
some superior achievements, and
a lot of informal reminiscing as
well as looking ahead to next sea-son.
Mark Barton and Bill Ostlund
received the First Annual Alumni
Award for their roles as outstand-ing
seniors. A few weeks earlier,
three Royal skaters were honored
by MIAC coaches when the con-ference
team was chosen. Tom
Correll was chosen as one of only
two sophomores to make all-con-ference,
and Greg Sutton and
Davey Johnson were given honor-able
mention.
The 1978-79 season was con-sidered
a good year by both
players and staff. They feel Bethel
varsity hockey had a good start, a
good foundation to build upon.
receive less than half they need for
necessities.
These 80 students are Nissis
from Arunachal Pradesh, an area
in northeastern India where Chris-tians
have been persecuted in-tensely.
A bill was passed recently
that restricts Christianity and for-bids
conversion.
Presently, there are about 5,000
baptized Nissi Christians. Though
Indian missionaries are forbidden
to work among the Nissis, the
Nissis are allowed to leave their
homes to attend John Firth
School.
These students are the only
means of reaching the rest of the
60,000 Nissis. Besides the Nissis,
many John Firth graduates are
outspoken Christian leaders
among their people.
The school is supported by the
North Bank Baptist Christian
Association. Many of the donors
are not wealthy and it has been
hard for them to raise the needed
money.
important. We're struggling with
the whole attitude of apathy that
seems to run through Bethel as a
whole."
Jacqui said they still intend to
have a yell section of some kind as
well.
Clinics to explain what will be
expected for cheerleaders will be
held Monday through Wednes-day,
and the following Monday
and Tuesday, April 16 and 17. All
will be at 7 p.m.
Questions may be addressed to
Jacqui Kadey, PO 2035, or Joan
Correll in the purchasing office.
Currently they are awaiting a
decision from the P.E. depart-ment
regarding a proposal for a
junior varsity program. "We feel
that there should be 60 hockey
players around every year," ex-plained
Dr. Tom Correll, who is
faculty advisor for the team. He
said that in order to keep 60
players interested and active, a
J.V. program needs to be estab-lished.
Correll believes there could be
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The North Bank supports other
ministries in conjunction with the
BGC, including a Christian radio
station. This radio ministry has
the potential of becoming an ef-fective
ministry because almost
everyone in India has a radio.
So if the association receives
financial assistance for the John
Firth School, more money could
be devoted to the radio ministry.
PAC is accepting monthly
pledges, large and small.
So far, PAC has received over
$400 in pledges.
Film forum offers
"Lonely Hunter"
as season's last
"The Heart is a Lonely
Hunter," starring Alan Arkin,
will be shown Monday at 7:30
p.m. in the AC lounge as the last
motion picture in this year's film
forum series.
Based on the novel by Carson
McCullers, the story involves a
deaf mute's life in a small southern
town. Judith Crist called it a film
of "tremendous emotional im-pact...
engrossing awl deeply mov-ing."
Attehdance at other films of the
series this year has averaged from
50 to 60, said Don Postema, assis-tant
professor of philosophy who
has led a discussion after each
film.
"I think people have seen that
film does more than just enter-tain,"
he said. "They have found
that it offers a lot of.insight and
provokes a lot of thought."
60 players here next year, judging
by the number known now.
Hockey fans are hoping that
some of the "five or six blue chip
players" currently on the "pro-spective"
list will choose to play at
Bethel. "They will really help us
out," noted Correll.
While most of the new
prospects are "from the Twin
Cities area," there are some
"from as far away a Edmonton,
Alberta."
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With a year of experience at
Bethel behind them, freshmen will
now have a chance to express their
concerns and opinions to mem-bers
of the administration and
faculty.
On April 18, Wednesday, at
9:30 p.m., Deans Marilyn Starr
and "Wink" Menser and others
will meet with freshmen in the sec-ond
floor lounge of the Nelson
residence.
Students will be able to ask
questions concerning housing,
lifestyle, academics and other
areas of college life.
"This will be an excellent time
for freshman students to get in
direct contact with the administra-tion,"
said senator Steve Penner,
who is helping to organize the
meeting.
Refreshments will be served.
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Andy Leong won in the recent Gopher State Karate Champion-ship.
Thinclads down Mac team
in first conference meet
IM out of bounds
IM playoffs find Nets in darkhorse role
by Rob Haglund
Some major surprises in the B
league basketball tournament and
some minor upsets in the A league
tourney highlighted last week's
IM action.
In B league, pre-tourney
favorites BMOC and the Swedish
Fly Girls both lost in the semi-finals
of the championship
bracket. The Big Men were rail-roaded
by the East-Bound Express
while the Fly Girls were edged by
the Glass Menagerie.
Both games were extremely
close and went right to the final
seconds. When the long-awaited
by Carol Madison
The women's track team finish-ed
the indoor season by placing
seventh out of 15 teams at the
Mankato Invitational, and fifth of
14 teams at the Duluth meet.
In the Mankato Invitational,
won by St. Olaf, five indoor
records were set. Denise Egge set
records in the 1500- and
800-meters, with times of 4:50.9
and 2:22.9
Her time in her fourth-place
1500-meter finish was fast enough
to qualify her for the regional
finals.
Deb Sension set a school record
in the high jump at 5-foot-1, and
the 4x160-meter relay team of
Sension, SheIli Rauma, JoAnn
Griffin, and Lynn Severson turn-ed
in a record time of 1:28.5.
Severson also ran the 300-meter
dash in a record 44.9.
School records were also set at
the Duluth Invitational. The
medley relay team and 4x1 lap
relay teams, comprised of Sen-sion,
Rauma, Griffin and Sever-son,
placed third and first with
records of 1:47.8 in the medley
and 1:28.5 in the 4x1.
Shellie Rauma's second-place
440-yard dash finish came in
record time at 1:03.2. Egge placed
second in the 880 at 2:22.2.
Sension's record time of 32.28
in the 220-yard hurdles earned se-cond
place, and Severson grabbed
third in the 200-yard dash, with a
school record, 28.26.
by Debbie Bunger
Unable to join the Minnesota
Twins in Florida for spring train-ing,
the Bethel Royals traveled to
Conway, Arkansas to ready them-selves
for the '79 baseball season.
The team is coached by Bob
Bjorklund, who is new on staff
this year. "He wants to make us a
strong, aggressive, offensive
team," stated Todd Johnson, first
baseman. "To do so, he worked
us hard to make sure we're in
clash between the two teams final-ly
arrived- in the consolation
bracket, BMOC forfeited because
of conflicts.
Meanwhile, in the champion-ship
bracket, the Express con-tinued
their winning ways with a
convincing 30-point win over the
Glass Menagerie. And so, at the
time of this writing, three teams
remain. My prediction is "the
chicks by the express, off glass."
In A league action Probes and
the Communicables advanced as
expected but the East Coast
Rockies were nipped by the Old
Men who got 15 points from Dan
Taylor and Mack Nettleton, and
"We had some good and bad
performances," said Coach
Shirley Dawson, "but we still
scored well. We had to pull Denise
Egge out of the mile because of an
injury, and had she run, her
points probably would have given
us a third place finish."
Tina Anderson and Ellie Abbot
Jim Anderson and Andy Leong
both received first place honors at
the recent Gopher State
KarateChampionships held in St.
Paul.
Freshman Anderson and
sophomore Leong with
sophomore Steve Culp compose a
three-man Bethel karate team that
entered the tournament that
hosted hundreds of karate com-petitors
from all over the midwest
region.
Anderson and Leong entered in
the katu competition. Katu is a
form of karate that is non-contact,
requiring grace, power,
speed and concentration.
Anderson, who has just recently
been promoted to green belt, took
the first place trophy in the white
belt division, even though he has
never competed prior to the
Gopher State Championships.
Leong, who has just been pro-shape."
Days began at 8 a.m. with a 21/2
mile run to a nearby school's
track, a couple laps, and then the
run back to the hotel for break-fast.
The rest of the morning and
much of the afternoon was spent
in practice.
"At night we were too tired to
do much," Johnson said. Team
devotions were held in the coach's
room with a different player lead-ing
each night.
Two days of exhibition games
the Chairman of the Boards
knocked off Vue A Val 48-43 with
the Kramka boys, Jon, Pete and
Steve combining for 23 points.
In other games, Mitch Bern-strom's
23 markers led the Infalli-ble
Trajectories to a 53-44 de-cision
over the Clippers and the
Nets, behind Scott Engstrom's
season high 24 points, dumped the
Quaz 64-51.
The Nets, alias, the Swisher
Sweets, have to be considered one
of the most exciting teams in A
league this year. They have been
involved in several close games
and with captain Jerry Black
directing the offense there is never
turned in personal bests in the 880
and 2-mile with times of 2:31.6
and 12:46, respectively.
The first outdoor meet is a
home coed meet at Mounds View
high school, tomorrow at 1 p.m.
The men will compete against
three teams and the women will go
against five.
moted to brown belt, took on a
small but highly competitive field
of participants to win first place in
the brown belt division. Leong
said that he was surprised that he
was able to win the trophy since he
has been a brown belt for less than
a month.
Culp placed fourth in brown
belt katu. A noted sparring com-petitor,
he was unable to par-ticipate
in his favorite event, point
sparring, because of wrist and
hand injuries.
These three, Leong, Anderson
and Culp, as well as several other
Bethel karate students, hope to
continue the winning trend in the
coming Duluth open karate tour-nament
on April 24.
'Instructor Terry Warner said he
is confident in his "Dragons" and
has worked hard to prepare his
students for competition.
e ends, as us
were played against Kent State.
Their team had been rained out of
Texas. "We fielded pretty well
considering the amount of time we
had practiced outside pre-viously,"
stated Johnson.
The team began practice March
3 but was confined to the gym be-cause
of the Minnesota weather.
The trip provided the first op-portunity
of the season for out-door
practice.
Although Arkansas was chosen
because of its dryness, unexpected
a dull moment.
With Scott Engstrom and Gor-dy
Dauchy hitting from the out-side
and Steve Brue scoring under-neath
the Nets have done surpris-ingly
well despite their obvious
lack of height.
Many observers say that with a
big man to compliment their out-
Bethel's track team took eight
first-places on its way to a 80-50
victory over Macalester in the
team's first conference meet of the
season.
Sophomore Greg Stipe led the
way with three firsts, winning the
pole vault, long jump and triple
jump.
Other firsts included Bruce
Case in the 60-yd. hurdles in 8.4
sec. Steve Carrigan won the shot
ual, in rain
rain plagued the players. Practice
continued in drizzles through Fri-day
but the trip was then cut short
because of the rain.
"It really helped going down,"
said Johnson, "but it hurts com-ing
back and being stuck in the
gym again."
The team will travel to North-western
College for a game on
Wednesday and then to Dordt for
a Thursday game providing that it
does not snow. The conference
opener will be April 11 at home
against St. Mary's.
side shooting the Nets would be
awesome. Even without one they
are a very good team and could be
considered the dark horse of the
tournament.
And with Russ Anderson
heating up (he scored six points
against the Quaz) who knows
what will happen.
put with a throw of 45' and Kevin
Walton took top honors in the
high jump with a leap of 5'10".
Paul Otto placed first with a time
of 6.65 sec. in the 60-yd. dash.
Mac sensation Paul Mausling
scored wins 'in three events, too.
He won the 880, mile, and 2 mile.
The Royal mile relay team fin-ished
first with a time of 3:42.8.
The relay team consists of Dave
Jorgensen, Mitch Johnson, Bob
Holt, and Bryan Galloway.
Randy Bostrom also ran well,
placing second in the mile and in
the 1000 yd. run.
Bethel swept three events, the
60-yd. hurdles, high jump, and
pole vault, mainly because Macal-ester
did not enter these events.
The Royal track team's next
meet is tomorrow at Mounds
View, the Bethel Co-ed Invita-tional.
. Arkansas Baseball practic
Indoor season ends, records set
Anderson, Leong win,
take Katu Karate firsts
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The Priest returns for another in his long line of pre-fund-raising-concert front page photos.
Priests foretell unpredictable concert
Upper-level course requirement raised
by Joy Nannette Banta
The Academic Policy Commit-tee
(APC) has decided to imple-ment
a change in the graduation
requirements, making it necessary
to have a miniumum of 15 courses
at or above the intermediate 200
level.
The decision was made after
reviewing the results of a survey
taken last year of faculty and
students by a sub-committee
chaired by Olaf Olsen, and a Study
done out of the registrar's office.
The survey showed that both
faculty and students were willing
to have the change made, while
the study indicated that there was
a definite need for the proposal.
Thirty per cent of the students
were graduating with less than
half of their classes in the upper
level. In one case a student had
only eight or nine upper level
courses and received a degree.
"We believed that this was
academically unjustified," said
Lynn Fauth, chairman of the
APC. "The average number of
upper level courses students take
is 15, but we felt the need to raise
the standards," he added.
The impact of this decision is
harder on some departments than
on others. The hardest hit is the
theatre arts department.
Doug Briggs, chairman of the
theatre arts department, expressed
concern about the implications of
the decision, but yet endorses it.
"At first the committee recom-mended
that the theatre arts
department be listed as an excep-tion
to the new requirement, but
we were opposed to that," said
Briggs.
"We would rather have it
recommended and noted that peti-tion
is available in exceptional
cases," he said.
There are two reasons why the
theatre arts department is in this
predicament. First of all, the
department is structured like a
pyramid. There are a variety of
sub-disciplines in the department
that build on top of each other to
form the entire curriculum.
"We have a broad base of 16
courses, seven are firs1 level
courses," Briggs said.
The second reason is that all of
the first level courses in the
department are concern-oriented
(CO) courses. "We have moved
everything down, since we became
an independent department (apart
from the speech/communication
department), to serve the rest of
the community. Our CO courses
fill students' creativity require-ments,"
said Briggs.
The implication of all this is
that the department should
restructure their whole cur-riculum.
But the idea comes at a
poor time since the department's
total new curriculum was just put
into effect last fall.
"We are not overly concerned
about the new policy," said
Briggs. "We have four years
before the petitions would start
coming in, since the policy won't
take effect until next year.
"Our department has under-gone
such a 'dramatic' change
that we are actually excited about
the decision'. The new policy just
gives us a challenge to face," said
Briggs.
New Senate
adds Brown
Barsuhn
"I'm really excited. We have an
enthusiastic, high quality group of
people this year," said Steven
Hoswell, shortly after the first
meeting of the new student senate
Tuesday.
In what was mainly an indoctri-nation
session, the new senate
authorized a $200 subsidy for the
library's change machine, and de-cided
to build racks- for distri-buting
the "Twin Cities Reader."
According to Hoswell, the
machine cost the library over
$1300 in installation and operating
expenses, several hundred dollars
over the projected cost. "The re-sponse
to the change machine has
been phenomenal," said Hoswell,
"they took in over $600 in Janu-ary
and February."
cont. on page 3
LFC
Vol. 54 No. 18
Bethel College
April 6, 1979
Random House Handbook
to be Bethel standard
by Jay Stuart Russell
Faculty members have approv-ed
a proposal by, the academic
policy committee that would en-dorse
"The Random House
Handbook" as the style guide us-ed
in all courses taught at Bethel.
Professor Lynn Fauth, writing
coordinator and chairman of the
academic policy committee, said
that "the book was approved as
part of an ongoing effort to up-grade
the student writing level."
Fauth said that a major prob-lem
with student writing in the
past has been a confusion of
sources.
The college did not recommend
or endorse any one guidebook on
writing, and this created a lack of
consistency between Bethel pro-fessors.
"Unless a faculty member re-quires
other writing forms or
books, 'The Random House
Handbook' will be the guide or
authority," Fauth said.
Many Bethel students have al-ready
purchased the book, as both
the freshman and sophomore
classes were required to buy the
book for their Writing and Re-search
classes.
The book is available in the
bookstore for $8.95, and the li-brary
and writing center have
copies on reserve.
Artist Johnson demands perfection,
lounge mosaic meets unveiling date
by Mark Rentz
The newly completed 34-foot
long mosaic entitled "Sun
Through the Clouds" literally
came through some stormy condi-tions.
Construction of the 4,665 tile-pieced
mosaic was postponed
twice because of tiles that did not
meet the the design requirements.
"Arrigoni Borthers, the tile
manufacturers, sent some blue
tiles, but I rejected them because
of problems with their surface,"
said Dale R. Johnson, associate
professor of art and designer of
the mosaic.
A few days before the dedica-
Lion ceremony, the project was
finally finished, but the green tile
at the bottom of the mosaic was
the wrong color—it was too light.
Johnson at this point faced the
decision of whether he would have
the green tile replaced with a
darker green and not unveil his
work at the ceremony, or allow
the mistake to alter the mosaic's
effect.
He again rejected the tile and
had them take it out. Fortunately,
Arrigoni Brothers found the cor-rect
color green in their ware-house,
which would have taken
weeks to remake and fire in their
cunt. on page 4
High Priest and the Pharisees
will perform their first concert this
Saturday night at 8 p.m. in the
gymnasium.
The concert is a benefit for the
Student Missionary Project
(SMP). Admission is $1.50.
"This will be the most enter-,
taining evening of the year,"
claimed band leader John Priest-ly.
"Our concerts (formerly the
group was called Priest and the
Scribes) have previously been
well-attended."
Priestly said the concert will in-elude
hits from the 50's as well as
humor. "It will be an unpredic-table
concert," he said. "The se-cond
half will be different than
anything that has been done at
Bethel in the past.
"We will be unveiling Bethel's
most talented personality," he ad-ded,
and said, "and it's not me."
One of the members of the
band is what Priestly said is "a
clone of Buddy Holly."
Priestly also said that a mystery
TV personality will be making an
appearance at the concert. "This
will be the greatest concert
Bethel's ever seen," he concluded.
on the inside...
time for Zeke,
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new Clarion editor,
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hang gliding,
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MIRROR,MIRKOR, ON THEWAIL, IS MY FLORIDA SW4/04 0014E. ALREADY/?
the Soapbox
el X21" CLAIR'
Opinion
Solve own problem,
stop stealing spoons
Though it seems a small matter, it's an embarrassment that anything
needs to be said on this subject.
The problem is theft, and it's not the work of outsiders. It involves
many Bethel students.
The facts are these: the cafeteria has lost 80 dozen spoons so far dur-ing
this school year. It is also missing dozens of glasses, probably 100
salad bowls and numerous other pieces of dining ware.
As the year began every rack of glassses in the kitchen was full. Now
15 are empty.
This means, of course, that these implements must be replaced. The
cafeteria has had to purchase 60 dozen new spoons since September.
Realistically, we can assume that the culprits are those who use the
food service; some of these, to be sure, are numbered among those who
complain at cafeteria prices.
Apparently, students who carry off the property have one of two atti-tudes.
They may be ignorant and take things without thinking about it,
or they may cognitively decide that their petty theft won't hurt anyone.
We could try to argue rationally. We could go on about how small in-dividual
thefts (face it, that's what they are) rapidly total up to major
financial losses.
But the problem is not an intellectual one. It is a moral one. Student-swho
take property consciously are blatantly stealing. They mal call it
"borrowing" until the end of the year, but who needs the stuff then?
And students that take property unthinkingly without returning it are
at best inconsiderate. Either way the problem is theft. Need we bother to
note that we do call ourselves Christians?
Of course it's elementary. The problem is wrong, that's simple. The
solution is simpler still. Bring it back. Don't just applaud, do something
Thanks, old Senate,
for job well done
As the new Student Senate administration moves in it seems ap-propriate
to credit the old one with some accomplishments.
It was an average year, not full of spectacular innovations. The
Senate did not make a big splash. But then, who ever said it was suppos-ed
to?
The past senate did its job and did it welt. It fulfilled its function ad-quately
and accomplished a few other things on the side.
Senate brought the coin machine to the library and repaired the type-writers
there. It initiated Koffee Klatches and leadership breakfasts to
open channels of communication.
It also began the student directory and the Chautauqua free university
program.
Senate also raised funds in support of Voice of Calvary, the bowl of
rice program, and orphanage in the Philippines and the John Firth High
School in India.
For these and other jobs we say to the Senate, thanks for the good
work.
The Clarion is published weekly by students of Bethel College. Letters to the editor should be
typed, signed and sent to PO 2381 by the Sunday before publication.
April 6, 1979 Bethel College Vol. 54 No. 18
David Shelley. editor
Suzi Wells, news editor
Greg Smith, feature editor
Paul Olsen, copy editor
Thangi Chhangte, copy editor
Debbie Bunger, production editor
Phoebe Morgan, production editor
Joy Banta, editorial assistant
Patti Backlund, business manager
Steve Erickson, sports editor
Carol Madison, sports editor
Betty Logan, arts editor
Shelly Nielsen, columnist
Rick Chapman columnist
Juan Ramos, cartoonist
Doug Berkey, photograph(
Dear editor:
I write this letter after deep
introspection. I feel compelled to
share the mixed reactions that I
have to Staley Lectures delivered
by Dr. Anthony Campolo.
- First I want to say that so much
of his content was relevant and
addressed a most pressing issue.
But I was also frightened.
I was frightened by the way the
Bethel community permitted itself
to be manipulated in response to
his style of delivery, specifically
the chant chorus "Today's Fri-day,
but Sunday's coming."
I have no fear of the gospel be-ing
preached, but I do object
when it is delivered only to enter-tain
a crowd. That we were excited
by the performance was evidenced
by the laughter that followed.
I was frightened to realize that
as the Jonestown people had per-mitted
themselves to be
manipulated in their reponses, we
also had slipped into that error.
And ironically, we let this happen
only a week after a chapel board
publicly examined the Jonestown
incident.
I am reminded of the axiom,
that "a man who doesn't learn
from history is doomed to relive
its experiences."
Without wishing to throw the
baby out with the washwater, I
would like to divorce the style of
Dr. Campolo from his content.
What Dr. Campolo told us was
well received. After the first
chapel, the overwhelming
response was "great chapel, the
best we ever had. I really needed
that."
But I remember a similar recep-tion
given to a message delivered
by Mrs. Malcolm in November.
And similar messages were
presented to our chapel by Dr.
Richard Mouw, Dr. John Perkins,
and Doctors Westphal • and
Amberson. What did these
messages accomplish?
Except for a. brief period of
reflection and guilt, the most
noticeable result was nothing.
Have we failed to learn anything
from chapel? Or are we trying to
live on sugar induced spiritual
highs, reinforced periodically by
fresh doses of others' spirituality?
I think there are a few things we
should have learned. First, the
Christian commitment we need to
make cannot be an immediate
complete actuality, but is a grow-ing
process that involves time.
We become frustrated when we
view the immensity of the prob-lem,
and lose sight of our objec-tives
after a short time of a seem-ingly
fruitless intense battle.
Second, a need exists in which
we can program or structure a pat-tern
of development. Dr. Amber-son,
in addressing this problem at
the seminary chapel, presented a
chart which related various stages
of actualized commitment of dif-ferent
degrees in our spiritual
lives.
I believe alterations are required
to fill the needs of Bethel students,
Dear editor:
. Lately we have heard a lot of
talk about the correct Christian
lifestyle and what it really means
to give of ourselves for Christ.
We have been told to take up
our cross and follow Him. We
have heard suggestions on how to
love our neighbor as ourselves and
give to the many people who have
much greater physical needs than
and an excellent starting point is
to take up Dr. Campolo's sugges-tion
that we form support cells,
upholding each other emotionally
and spiritually by encouragement
and prayer.
Our commitment could then be
deepened to deal with the pro-blems
which face our Bethel com-munity
members, and then be fur-ther
developed.
This task involves work and
prayer. However, I believe it is the
responsibility of this communit y
to develop such a program.
And that responsibility is not to
lie in the school administration,
asking them to provide a program
for us, but because we are talking
of our own commitment to our
Lord, should be thought out by
ourselves.
Bethel is a beautiful place to
grow as a Christian, but that
growth means more than making
an empty pledge to God. I pray
that we will "work out our salva-tion
with fear and trembling"
(Phil. 2.12) and thus grow in our
Lord and Savior.
Love,
Larry Meegan
we have.
Perhaps it was in response to
the recent emphasis on such things
that the Student Senate Public Ac-tion
Committee decided to spon-sor
a basketball marathon and
raise money for an orphanage in
the Philippines.
Although I think ,it's great that
Bethel seeks to contribute to an
cont. on page 4
`Good' dollars need
`good' means
page two
time I had no idea that it was my so many time conflicts for the
weekend to produce a column. individual, but our conflicts tend
But then the shell shocked me—I to be more fabricated than ge-was
harshly reminded that I was nuine. At any given moment
up for another exposition. countless avenues are open to us;
My mind objected within me, whether, consciously or not we
"But I don't have enough time!" constantly decide to do one thing
And isn't that the same manner in instead of another.
which we object all too often? The. Too many people run around
obvious problem with the phrase is flippantly employing this 'phrase He did more in one lifetime
a matter of volition—when all is as if they are time's most severely than most men could accomplish
considered don't we always do affected victims. This is well por- in three, and his life was ab-what
we want to anyway? trayed at Bethel in what I call the breviated at forty. Yet he was able
Both the rapidity and complexi- "who got the least sleep?" syn- to seek God daily in vigor and in-ties
of American life have created drome. tensity through meditation,
RA's develop an extraordinary prayer, and in fellowship with
ability at this presentation of others.
pseudo-martyrdom—and they The stud and dynamic quaky of such
never need any sleep. a life is no coincidence. He sought
The game is simple. Just sit God and God made his time
down with a couple of friends and meaningful... but I don't have
determine who has had the least enough time!
amount of sleep in the past week. It bothers me when I recall the
The winner invariably drinks moments of time which I allowed
more coffee. to place me in chains when I
But time is not persecuting should have been capturing the
sr—jai people. The fact remains— time. But Paul exhorted the Ephe-we
all have the same amount of sians to be extra careful, to
time, whether 24 hours, 1,440 redeem the time—making the most
minutes, or 86,400 seconds a day. of life's opportunity.
Take your pick. That is wisdom living ,knowing
We don't need more time, but what we should be doing at every
we desperately need better moment. Time becomes a bless-priorities.
ing when we capture it and release
A great irony is that in the midst its potential bondage. Don't ask
of our many activities, we delude "Is there enough time?," but "Is
ourselves, believing that we don't this what I should be doing?"
have time for God. Time never lacks for those who
At this point I am reminded of capture it, who live life in the
Dieterich Bonhoeffer, truly a danger of every moment, and who
fascinating man! His life bustled look to the Giver of Time to make
with tremendous energy and an it meaningful. Time only lacks for
abundance of experience and ac- those who waste it. "...but for
tivity. those who love, time is eternity."
do..." Yet the uniqueness of time
lies in its movement; time is not
static and cannot be held in any
human container.
Every time I breathe I ex-perience
a moment of time, but
that very moment moves inex-orably
to the next and it is gone ir-retrievably.
But I am troubled not because
time moves, but because we have
constructed an enormous fallacy
about time's movement.
The other night I rambled
through the cafeteria and at the
Sue Stone and Steve Hoswell have stepped into their new ad-ministrative
roles.
Zeke's Zetesis
Time: under control or in control ?
by Rick Chapman
"Time is...too slow for those
who wait, too swift for those who
fear, too long for those who
grieve, too short for those who re-joice..."
In the song "Time in a Bottle"
Jim Croce articulated what many
might consider the chief quality of
time: its elusiveness. And so they
say "time waits for no man."
Along with Croce many lament
"there never seems to be enough
time to do the things you want to
New Senate
cont. from page 1
In other business, the senate ac-cepted
Caryl Brown as secretary
and Scott Barsuhn as treasurer to
join Hoswell and Susan Stone,
vice-president, on the executive
board.
Other members of the senate,
which is elected every year in full,
include senators at large Mike
Messer, Denny Johnson, Tony
Anderson and Julie Wright;
senior senators Carol Bowman,
Phil Thompson and Bill McCau-ley;
junior senators Todd Mag-nuson,
Shari Goddard and Pat
Wheeler; and sophomore senators
Cheryl Thomas, Rickie Troxel,
Steve Penner and Cindy Berglund.
Also in the first meeting, mem-bers
were appointed to the various
internal committees of the senate.
Hoswell and Stone successfully
carried through on one campaign
promise by abandoning the public
relations committee. A standing
committee chaired by Hoswell is
in charge of senate PR.
The president pro tern of the
senate will be elected next week.
All senate meetings are open to
anyone and begin at 6 p.m. in the
AC lounge every Tuesday.
GUITAR INSTRUCTOR
IN RECITAL
Tim W. Johnson, instructor of
guitar, will present a recital April
17 at.8 p.m. in the seminary cha-pel.
Tim will be assisted by Dan
Lundberg and Glen Larson,
guitarists, Linda Johnson,
soprano, and Jerry Nelson, "tenor.
Tim's repertoire will include
pieces by Bach, Handel, Schubert
and Scarlatti, and a "Sonata for
three guitars" that he wrote in
1975.
Trinity Baptist Church
2220 Edgerton Street at Hwy. 36
St. Paul, MN 55117 774-8609
SUNDAY
8:30 AM Worship Service
9:45 AM Sunday School
11:00 AM Worship Service
6:00 PM Evening Service
Bus Schedule
Old Campus 9 AM
Fountain Terrace 9:15 AM
New Campus 9:30 AM
Student Senate
Senate bids adieu with trail of fine achievements
by Jim Torgerson Board of Regents, presenting stu- nels of communication. the projects mentioned here are
dent , perspectives in discussions A Public Relations Committee far from complete.
A commercial, advertising a with administrators, monitoring was established in the Senate. Its One more note on the "accom-bank,
shows an interviewer asking the various publications and the responsibilities include publish- plishments" of the past year. It is
people, "What do you think of Campus Coordinators, and allo- ing lunchtime leaflets and helping only honest to admit that any
when you think of your bank?" eating funds to deserving student other committees in their public succuss we might have enjoyed is
The people, somewhat puzzled, groups. relations work. the result of a group of dedicated
would confess that they did not Other projects include the coin Koffee Klatches and Leadership senators working together. It has
often think of their bank. machine in the Library and a short Breakfasts are other examples of been a privilege working with
If the bank is doing its job peo- term student loan program that is the Senate's attempt to foster bet- them.
ple do not have to think about it. presently in process. ter communication. Finally, I think the Senate's
Only when a bank is performing - In response to student requests, The Creative Service segment of most important function is to be a
unsatisfactorily do people give the senate has arranged to distri- our platform had three compo- facilitator of and participant in
much thought to their bank. bute the Reader. They helped nents: Student Directory, Chatau- your educations. The social
In preparation for this column I finance some additional book- qua, and a strong emphasis on re- awareness that you can gain from
asked a number of students what drops. sponding to the needs of the the various projects of PAC and
their most memorable impression When Tannie and I ran for world. AAES is very important, especial-of
the recent Senate was. office last year our platform was The Senate's interest in re- ly if it changes your thinking and
My only explanation for their divided into two parts; Credible sponding to social concerns was your life.
almost total ignorance is that our Structure and Creative Service. expressed through the Public Ac- Omar Khayyam, a Persian poet
constituency must have such con- With the assistance of the senate tion Committee and AAES. born in the 1 lth century wrote the
fidence in the Senate that, like the and many friends we were able to Expressions of that concern in- following whimsical lines.
people in the commercial, they implement most of that platform. elude funding a group visiting "Myself when young did
feel no need to think about it! The Credible Service section of Voice of Calvary in Mississippi, eagerly frequent
Whatever your awareness, how- our platform was primarily con- Bowl of Rice, supporting an or- "Doctor and Saint, and heard
ever, the Senate feels it has had a cerned with seeking to improve phanage in the Philippines and the great argument
profitable year. Without going in- communication between the John Firth High School in India. "About it and about: but
to all the details, I will try to sum- Senate and both the administra- Through AAES we have taken evermore
marize some of the major ac- tion and the student body. positions supporting the establish- "Came out by the same Door
complishments and emphasis of Mark Twain noted that, "One ment of a demonstration farm in as in I went."
the past year. gets such wholesale return of con- Haiti, a boycott of Nestle's pro- Hopefully the Senate can con-
First, we have worked hard at jecture on such trifling investment ducts, purposeful stock divesture, tribute to the process of not only
fulfilling the obligations outlined facts." and concern about child care. presenting more information but
for us by the constitution. Because one of our goals was to This listing is not a complete ac- also of convincing students to
This includes representing stu- prevent conjecture by providing count of Senate's actions this "come out by a different door
dent interests and concerns to the facts, we established several chan- year. At the same time, many of than in you went."
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the Soapbox
Intelligent life in chapel questionable
Dear Clarion:
I think I have made some scien-tific/
sociological discoveries that
could be important for Bethel's
intellectual/spiritual life.
In finding a balcony seat a few
Dear editor,
I would like to give a sincere
vote of thanks to you and your
staff for the fine job you have
been, doing this year. Your job is
not an easy one, and I feel that
many on this campus do not
realize how hard you work.
Sometimes, I find myself disa-greeing
with a letter to the editor
an article in the paper. I realize
that this is inevitable. But I do not
throw away the whole paper
because I disagree with a small (or
large) part of it.
The paper has frequently been a
source of spiritual encouragement
to me. The article on Paul Greely
was a monument to the kind of
faith we all need. And I can often
Good dollars
cont. from page 2
orphanage, I believe that the
means by which the money was
raised destroyed the intended
good.
I do not believe God is glorified
when a community such as Bethel
pays to watch 10 people literally
ruin themselves physically but
won't drop a dollar in the SMP
offering.
We are the body of Christ. Why
then do we allow part of the Body
to suffer? Who would pay to have
his arm broken?
If this is the surest way of rais-ing
money for such a good cause,
then students here at Bethel ought
to re-examine their true reasons
for giving.
I watched the marathon for
several hours. I saw what those
people went through. I realize that
they did it willingly and weren't
forced, but only because of our
warped sense of what giving
means.
God demands a cheerful giver.
Is this cheerful giving? Let's aim
for God-glorifying methods of
raising money in the future.
In Christ,
Kim Kreps
weeks ago for a talk by the Har-vard
astronomer on the possibility
of intelligent life on other planets,
I happened to sit in front of a
handsome young man and three
members of his harem.
It afforded me the opportunity
look to the Clarion for some bit of
encouragement to seek the highest
possible values in my own spiritual
walk.
But I especially want to uphold
you on your Opinion column of
February 23. For a long time, I
have been deeply saddened by the
Student Senate "Beef Board." So
much of what is said there is so
unnecessary and really very
damaging to our sense of com-munity
and our Christian values.
You clarified for us what is im-portant
here. We do need to
criticize and ask questions about
important changes that need to be
made.
But we need to love each other
deeply in this. We need to be sen-sitive
to others' concerns. We
need to stretch ourselves to see the
other side in love.
This is very hard to do. But all
of us, in committing ourselves to
the Lord Jesus Christ, have incur-red
in ourselves some inevitable
standards which are a part of our
commitment.
My deepest prayer for everyone
at Bethel College is that the Lord
would help us to forget our
"hardships" and "problems" and
remember FIRST what the Lord
has done for us. We have so much
to be thankful for. How can we
complain after all He has done for
us?
In Christian Love,
Jan Wigdahl
Dear editor,
I would like to commend Pastor
Spickelmier for the idea of having
a prayer chapel. While most pray-er
requests were well-thought out,
several of the pleas for assistance
in "National and World con-cerns"
were ironic if not ludi-crous.
In "Bethel concerns" we have a
request for "the development of a
world view of Christianity for stu-dents,
staff and faculty," yet far-ther
down on the list there is a re-quest
for "the safety of Ameri-to
make the following observa-tions:
1. The average chapel/convo-cation
speaker is allowed by some
approximately three minutes to
tickle their fancy. If he or she
fails, all rights are forfeited.
2. As arrogant as it is to walk
out of chapel because one's fancy
is not tickled, it may be preferable
to staying and providing corn-petiton
for the speaker. Perhaps
every speaker should be instructed
to stop after five minutes so that
Mosaic unveiling,
cont. from page 1
kiln. They were able to finish the
mural the day before it was unveil-ed.
"It looked like an impossible
situation," said Johnson, "but I
really believe that the Lord wants
us to try to do our best and not
settle for something if it isn't
right. I think that's a good lesson
for students to learn, too."
The mosaic is beneath the north
window in the new building.
"Northern light," said Johnson
at the dedication service, held in
the new recreation room, "is the
light that artists always want to
work by. It is the most constant
cans and missionaries" in Uganda
and North Yemen.
"Only Americans? What makes
us special? Are we a "people of
God"? Why were Americans
singled out in six of the 10 request
of "National and world con-cerns"?
Are we superior to the British,
South Americans, Europeans,
etc., or to the Iranians them-selves?"
How ethical is it to pray
for the safety of the American
businessmen who are taking ad-vantage
of every Ungandan or Ira-nian
available?
disappointed listeners can leave
together.
3. A handsome young man can
elicit giggles from his admirers
with amazingly little expense of
wit.
4. Even bovine-types talk less
when a pretty, color slide is on the
screen than when they are con-fronted
with numbers, graphs, or,
heaven forbid, concepts.
The last observation leads me to
a suggestion. Might not those with
short attention spans be issued
light.
"The mosaic was designed to
create an active, stimulating,
abstract landscape in mosaic tile
that would bring visual excitement
and color into the lounge area."
Johnson explained that the
mosaic was, "really an abstract
landscape: out of the clouds is an
array of light and it illuminates a
section of a grassy field, which the
Psalms symbolically describe as
humanity; and the light is the light
of the world.
"There are many levels of inter-pretation,
but I hope that it can
initially be seen as a bright, ex-citing
design. Then I hope the
Ironically, we are to pray for
the Nestle Boycott a few minutes
after we pray for the American
businessmen. As far as the safety
of Americans goes, there are plen-ty
of them around the world that I
would rather not have to apolo-gize
for.
You may accuse me of being
over-critical of a small blunder.
But this harmless error reflects the
immature attitude that most
Americans have toward foreign
countries. We aren't God's peo-ple.
(Thank heaven—what a poor
witness we would be!)
pastels and paper at the door (I
dare not say crayons—that would
be satirical) so as to entertain
themselves with bright colored
shapes?
The speaker was concerned with
the question of intelligent life in
outer space; I was more concerned
about the question closer to
home.
Dan Taylor
people will reconstruct the
metaphor."
"The design," said Johnson,
"didn't come from a vision, or a
burning bush. It just came from
sketches and hard work."
Dennis Arrigoni, of Arrigoni
Brothers (mosaic tile setters) said,
"We started three different times
but had to pull off for various
reasons.
"We initially began in January,
and what took three months ac-tually
only took three weeks of ac-tual
labor. If you want a ball-park
estimate, I'd estimate $7,000
worth of labor and material went
into the project."
We should be praying for the
wounded and for the comfort of
those who have lost friends, bro-thers
and sisters. Let's pray for
the spread of the Gospel, whether
it be through Catholics, Baptists,
Lutherans, or other Christians.
Let's not bow our heads before
the Lord and plead for the safety
of the American mercenary, the
American capitalist, the American
(and not other) missionary, the
American military, the American
government or most of all the fat-tening
of the American billfold.
Doug Barkey
Student praises Clarion,
pleads for love and unity
Prayer mirrors ethnocentrism, avoids world concern
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Paul Olsen contemplates his future as the next Clarion editor.
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by Terri Sue Hanson
For over 60 years the Bethel
Women's Auxiliary has been serv-ing
the college and seminary in a
very quiet way. Lori Kiel, presi-dent,
said, "We don't create a
thunderous roar—we're a service
organization."
The auxiliary is governed by a
board of over 20 women. Most of
the women are from BGC chur-ches.
For the first time, however,
Dischinger, Murray and Bjork-lund,
along with students from
other consortium colleges, study
topics such as penal reform,
Carter's foreign policy toward
Latin America, and the economy.
"We have met with the director
of federal bureau of prisons,"
Bobbie explained. "We also have
also been able to interview people
in and out of government, in-cluding
congressmen and
senators' research aids"
by Thangi Chhangte
"I am the shortest editor since
Paul Healy," announced Paul
Olsen just after the Communica-tions
Board selected him to be
next year's Clarion editor.
This year, Paul is copy editor
and was also a staff writer last
year. Paul said he applied because
his friends told him to. He claims
to have had no journalistic ex-perience
apart from his work at
Bethel. Outside of the Clarion,
last November's issue of the Focus
printed Paul's article on
languages.
According to Paul, his success
in the News and Feature writing
class led to his involvement with
the Clarion. When he transferred
from Normandale Community
College last year, he said, "I was
assigned to a literature class I
thought would be boring. So my
advisor suggested I change to
News and Feature and I agreed."
His basic goal for next year is
"to provide an excellent com-munity
paper, by secular and
religious standards." Paul admit-ted
that the Clarion has not
always been the best but that he
hopes to continue the improving
trend which former editor, Bruce
Olsen ('77-'78), began.
Some of the changes Paul plans
mostly involve the staff. He will
basically have four people on staff
where each person would be
responsible for two pages. Duties
would include assigning stories
and working on layout.
He also plans to have two
photographers. Another addition
will be a graphics person to
"design the artsy stuff and make
the paper look good."
"We won't have any foreigners
on staff next year except Shelly
Nielsen—she's a Mormon," Paul
explained, concerning his choice
about the staff.
Other changes include an open
column for faculty and students,
especially for those with a flair for
fiction. Paul and his staff also
plan to have a small issue ready
for Welcome Week to "introduce
the freshmen to Bethel."
Overall, Paul said that he hopes
to have more in-depth coverage of
Bethel events, including better
coverage of prominent chapel
speakers.
As for further improvements,
Paul said, "What we need is feed-back
from people who don't like
what we do, and from those who
want something new. We need
suggestions."
With a Cross-Cultural Corn-munications
major, a non-standard
specialization, Paul
plans to go to seminary eventual-ly.
Besides working for the
Clarion, Paul has done some
"politicking." This spring, he and
Ted Anderson campaigned for the
Ignorance and Apathy party (we
don't know and we don't care)
and received one vote.
Asked whether he thought he
won or lost, Paul replied, "It's
hard to say because I don't know
much about politics and I don't
care to find out."
So far, Paul's choices for his
staff next year include Suzi Wells,
associate editor, and Steve
Erickson and Carol Madison,
news and sports editors.
by Suzi Wells
The phrase, "integrating faith
and learning," is coming alive in
both classroom and work ex-periences
for three Bethel students
in Washington, D.C.
Bobbie Dischinger, Lou Murray
and Cheryl Bjorklund are study-ing
in Washington this semester
under the Christian College Con-sortium
American Studies Pro-gram.
a non-conference member is on
the board this year.
"The board isn't exclusive. It is
open to any woman who believes
in and is interested in Christian
higher education. Because of that,
several board members have kids
attending Bethel."
The auxiliary's purpose is two-fold.
First, it tries to stimulate in-terest
and concern for Bethel.
Secondly, it unites women in a
The students, who live in a dor-mitory
two blocks northeast of the
capitol, have access not only to in-fluential
administrators, but also
to the Library of Congress for
their studies.
Students work in internships
every day, which adds to their
academic experience. The area of
the students' interest determines
the type of internship.
Lou Murray is working in the
Development Assistant Services of
World Relief Corporation of Na-tional
Association of Evangeli-cals.
"I've been able to go to con-ferences,
seminars and
workshops," she said. She has
learned about needs for further
development in rural areas of the
world, in nutrition needs, as well
as about U.N. efforts and help for
refugees.
Besides learning about the
social needs of people around the
world, Lou has also gained aware-cont.
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CHAPEL SCHEDULE
Monday, Sing and Share
Tuesday, Tekle Selassie
Wednesday, Pastor Jim
Spickelmier
Thursday, Easter Concert—
Dean Palermo directing
Friday, Good Friday, no
chapel
fellowship of prayer and service
for the school.
To accomplish its purpose, the
auxiliary has several committees
that carry out specific projects.
The infirmary committee, for in-stance,
does voluntary work such
as typing for the bloodmobile or
helping football players with
check-ups.
The mailing department labels
all the mail that goes out of
Bethel, such as the Focus and
alumni news. The women label
approximately 90000 pieces of
mail each year.
The special projects committee
takes on a special project annually
and encourages people to support
the project financially. This
month completes a two-year
$5000 project to decorate the din-ing
room off the new coffee shop.
The room will be decorated with a
Swedish flavor and be used for
small dinners, board meetings and
faculty lunches.
In the past, the special projects
committee has decorated the
prayer chapel, installed the
walkway and lighting between the
college and seminary and donated
kitchen equipment and library
books.
"Our `Licleem Stick'em prog-gram
is a stamp project that funds
our international student scholar-ship.
We put Tekle Salassie (a stu-dent
from Ethiopia now at the
seminary) through four years at
Bethel completely on stamps such
as S&H Green stamps and Gold
Bonds."
O
Now, however, instead of com-pletely
supporting one student the
fund is dispersed to many
students.
"Our biggest emphasis is on
prayer for students, faculty and
administration. Each year at our
annual banquet, we take the
freshmen class and pass out their
names to the women. These
women then pray for their par-ticular
student all year long."
Students intern in political atmosphere
page five
Case challenged by free-flight adventure
by Joy Nannette Banta
Imagine yourself 1500 feet off
the ground with only an
aluminum tube and a piece of
cloth holding you up. Then im-agine
the sensation of actually fly-ing.
If that sounds like your kind of
adventure, you belong in the
ranks of the many hang glider
pilots, one of whom who is here at
Bethel—Bruce Case.
Hang gliding has gathered
many flying followers in the past
years, gaining popularity especially
on the West Coast where high
cliffs for excellent take-offs are
readily available.
But, being a native Minnesotan,
Bruce Case has found places in
this area to practice his sport.
Why does he do it? "It is the
closest thing to pure flight that a
person can get," said Bruce.
This year will be his third sea-son.
He was interested in the sport
and when he found out that his
brother-in-law taught hang glid-by
G.W. Smith
When the Chanhassen dinner
theatre produces a play, one ex-pects
the best. And when the play
is the popular musical Camelot,
one expects better than best.
The play is, in fact, about per-fection.
It is a tale of chivalry, of
knights in shining armor and their
pursuit of goodness and purity.
And it is a tale of romance.
But when expecting perfection,
one is often disappointed. And so
is the case with Camelot.
Oh, it's not as drastic as one
might think. The play was hardly
a calamity. In fact, it was quite
delightful. But it wasn't perfect.
The most curious and unfor-tunate
fault with Camelot was a
tendency for over-acting, parti-cularly
on the part of Lancelot,
played by James Werner. Werner
had apparently developed an un-canny
knack for creating discom-fort
with the one character desig-nated
as the purest of knights.
In scene three, for instance,
when Lancelot first entered, he
appeared noble and mighty, a
stately knight clad in full armor,
off to restore the image of
knighthood to what it once was.
But in scene four he tried to act
too good and his credibility as an
actor diminished.
There were other notable dif-ferences.
Guenevere, played by
Cynthia Wells, belied the image of
a quiet, genteel and submissive
queen, and was instead full of
spunk, at times belligerent,
courageous, bold, kind and grace-ful.
Arthur, too, seemed different
than the king I once read about.
Initially, he seemed too immature.
Yet, as the play developed and he
grew into maturity, he also
became more kingly.
As Arthur recalled the legend of
the sword in the stone and the in-cidents
leading to his inheritance
ing, he decided to give it a try.
Aside from that, the lessons were
free.
"I have only had about 20
minutes worth of lessons. From
there on I have taught myself," he
said. -
The first question most people
ask Bruce usually is, "How does it
work?" He replies that, "It works
on basically the same principal as
an airplane. The main difference
is that the wings are flexible."
Hang gliders are made of air-craft
quality tubing with a dacron
wing (similar to a sail on a sail-boat).
Since they are made with
aircraft quality, "few accidents
can be blamed on the glider
design. They are usually well
made," said Bruce.
The major focus of hang gliding
is weight shifting. "The wind has
a good deal to do with it but most
control is determined by how you
shift your weight," he said.
A person is harnessed into the
glider in a horizontal position
while in flight. "Like laying face
of the throne, the emotions
became real, and his majesty
began to shine.
Perhaps the most delightful
character of the entire play was
that of Merlyn the magician
played by Paul Ballantyne. Wear-ing
a floor-length sorcerer's robe,
the shy, wise, mysterious old
magician followed Arthur's pro-gress
as king of Camelot like a sort
of grey-haired, silver-bearded
guardian angel.
Early misgivings over character
differences vanished as the play
developed. Oh, at times Lancelot
stepped beyond his character and
Arthur occasionally seemed too
humorous for a king. But per-sonality
differences aside, the play
became an intensely exciting
drama. -
Lancelot, as a symbol of good-ness,
advocated an adherence to
noble Christian principles. Guene-vere,
in her initial meeting with
Lancelot, rejected those princi-ples.
The two clashed and conflict
ensued.
That conflict, between the pur-suit
of goodness and the continual
American Studies, cont. from
ness of U.S. bureaucracy. In get-ting
experience that would be im-possible
on campus at Bethel, Lou
said, "I'm finding out what peo-ple
outside of an evangelical con-text
are like."
Cheryl is interning with the
State Department, working with
the Israeli desk. She witnessed the
signing of the Middle-east peace
treaty and attended press confer-ences
with diplomatic officials, in-cluding
Moshe Dayan of Israel.
Seeing the world leaders strive
for peace greatly impressed
Cheryl. she said, "the devotion
these people have to bring peace is
tremendous. Behind all the picture
taking and glamor, they're so
committed and involved."
Bobbie is working in the
down in a hammock," Bruce said.
"You can completely let go
because you are all harnessed in
—from shoulders to knees," he
added.
To take off you have to run
with it, and your feet are your lan-ding
gear.
Once you are in the air, you are
not at the mercy of the wind as
some believe. "As long as the con-ditions
are good, no strong winds
or bad weather, a person can keep
the glider under control," said
Bruce.
Bruce's latest accomplishment
flickering of evil, intensified into a
tightly knit love triangle involving
Arthur, Guenevere, and...Lance-lot.
While the individual scenes ade-quately
captured the emotional
impact of each situation, the
beautiful musical numbers as sung
by the lead characters created
strong empathy for each of the
characters involved. Indeed, the
musical performances were superb
as in the end when Arthur, torn
with love for his wife and his corn-rads,
resolved to follow chivalry
and goodness, the life source of
Camelot.
"We are less than a drop in the
shining sea," he said thoughtful-ly,
"But some of the drops
sparkle, really. Oh yes, some of
them do sparkle!"
And so does Camelot. Dif-ferences
aside, Camelot is one of
the most delightful plays I have
seen in the past two years.
And as I close my eyes and con-sider
goodness, my ears still ring,
"In Camelot."
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Washington Office on Latin
America (WOLA) and now sees a
great need for educating the peo-ple
there. According to one
diplomatic source, education
assistance is even more important
than the need for food.
The Washington experience
made the students more aware of
ways Christians can become in-volved
in world affairs. Classes
taught by John Bernbaum, direc-tor
of the American Studies Pro-gram,
emphasize practical applica-tion
of the Christian faith.
"The director assumes that you
are a Christian serious about ap-plying
your faith to life exper-iences,
thinking things out and ap-plying
a Biblical perspective,"
Bobbie said.
on wings is his recent involvement
in the filming of "Foolin'
Around," an adventure movie
filmed in the Twin Cities.
Bruce was the pilot of the
powered glider used in the chase
sequence near the climax of the
film. He flew the glider through
downtown St. Paul and up the
Mississippi valley.
One scene takes the hang glider
and pilot through the large stained
glass window at the top of the
basilica in St. Paul.
"I had to fly as close as I could
get to the window and then make
"I've struggled this semester
with my responsibility as a Chris-tian,"
she added. "I now feel a
greater pressure to live out my
Christianity, but I believe it is the
responsibility of every Christian."
"It's good to go to another en-vironment,"
Cheryl explained.
"You're out there in an alien en-vironment.
It's just you and the
Lord."
"The world is big and the Lord
is big," Cheryl added. "Our duty
is to try to broaden our understan-ding
of the people in the world."
Applications are now being
received for students interested in
the American Studies program,
available in the dean's office.
a very sharp turn away from it,"
Bruce said. "They did the actual
crash through the window in the
studio with a stage set-up," he
continued.
A person couldn't tell it was
Bruce in the scene but he was
there, filling in for the star.
Stunts such as these make the
sport sound quite dangerous.
Bruce said, "For some it is dead-ly,
and others can do it till they are
50. It depends on the amount of
respect given to the sport—just
like any other sport or hobby."
Bruce has that necessary respect
for the sport—he's never gotten
"even a scratch."
After making the initial invest-ment
for a glider, $900 to $1,500,
there are only incidental expenses,
depending on any extra in-struments
or equipment one might
want, making hang gliding a sport
worth respecting.
"It's a great feeling flying free
way up in the sky. Why ruin the
fun by losing respect for it?" said
Bruce.
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Camelot delightful though imperfect Twin Cities Events
Theatre:
April 6, 7, 8 The Runner Stumbles
Theatre in the Round
April 6-29
Two for the Seesaw
Actors Theatre of St. Paul
April 6-8, 13-15 To Kill a Mockingbird
Chimera
April 12, 14
Birth and after Birth
Olympia Arts Ensemble-
Music
April 6, 7
La Traviata
Minnesota Opera Company
Guthrie.
April 7
Sir Peters Pears
Mozart, Britten, Barber, Martin
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
April 8
Janacek, Bartok, Schubert; Musicians from
Minn. Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber'
Orchestra, Walker Art Center
Dance
April 8
A Gallante Arte
15th and 16th century dance
Concentus Musicus Court Dancers
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Starr, Menser host
Freshman housing meeting
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join our forever family.
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Sunday School-9:45
Wednesday-7:15
Bus service from Bethel
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at 41 No. 10th St., the Regency
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is invited. For information call
925-2577.
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PAC assists school in India
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by Sari Winans
One of the four internal com-mittees
of Bethel College's Stu-dent
Senate, the Public Action
Committee (PAC), is seeking
financial aid for needy Indian
students attending a Christian
school in Assam, India.
PAC's desire is to serve God by
concerning themselves with social
problems around the world. This
year PAC's focus is on human
rights—an individual's right to
food, shelter and education.
Currently, PAC is sponsoring a
program which gives Bethel
students a chance to support these
needy high school students in
Assam.
John Firth Christian High
School has an enrollment of about
400, and is located in North
Lakhimpur, Assam. The school
has been instrumental in touching
the lives of young people in that
area.
About 80 students are in crucial
need of financial aid, for they
Prospective cheerleaders for fall
sports, football and soccer, may
try out on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in
the wrestling room. Women and
men are encouraged to try out,
said Jacqui Kadey who is organi-zing
tryouts.
The job will require physical fit-ness
and will demand time, she
added.
"We don't want this to be like
high school or junior high," Jac-qui
said, "but we are probably the
only school in the MIAC without
cheerleaders.
"We're concerned about school
spirit," she added. "This is very
by Ronn Krepps
The official gatherings of the
1978-79 Bethel hockey team were
over as of April 3, when the team
had it awards banquet. The eve-ning
included presentation of let-ters
to 21 players, recognition of
some superior achievements, and
a lot of informal reminiscing as
well as looking ahead to next sea-son.
Mark Barton and Bill Ostlund
received the First Annual Alumni
Award for their roles as outstand-ing
seniors. A few weeks earlier,
three Royal skaters were honored
by MIAC coaches when the con-ference
team was chosen. Tom
Correll was chosen as one of only
two sophomores to make all-con-ference,
and Greg Sutton and
Davey Johnson were given honor-able
mention.
The 1978-79 season was con-sidered
a good year by both
players and staff. They feel Bethel
varsity hockey had a good start, a
good foundation to build upon.
receive less than half they need for
necessities.
These 80 students are Nissis
from Arunachal Pradesh, an area
in northeastern India where Chris-tians
have been persecuted in-tensely.
A bill was passed recently
that restricts Christianity and for-bids
conversion.
Presently, there are about 5,000
baptized Nissi Christians. Though
Indian missionaries are forbidden
to work among the Nissis, the
Nissis are allowed to leave their
homes to attend John Firth
School.
These students are the only
means of reaching the rest of the
60,000 Nissis. Besides the Nissis,
many John Firth graduates are
outspoken Christian leaders
among their people.
The school is supported by the
North Bank Baptist Christian
Association. Many of the donors
are not wealthy and it has been
hard for them to raise the needed
money.
important. We're struggling with
the whole attitude of apathy that
seems to run through Bethel as a
whole."
Jacqui said they still intend to
have a yell section of some kind as
well.
Clinics to explain what will be
expected for cheerleaders will be
held Monday through Wednes-day,
and the following Monday
and Tuesday, April 16 and 17. All
will be at 7 p.m.
Questions may be addressed to
Jacqui Kadey, PO 2035, or Joan
Correll in the purchasing office.
Currently they are awaiting a
decision from the P.E. depart-ment
regarding a proposal for a
junior varsity program. "We feel
that there should be 60 hockey
players around every year," ex-plained
Dr. Tom Correll, who is
faculty advisor for the team. He
said that in order to keep 60
players interested and active, a
J.V. program needs to be estab-lished.
Correll believes there could be
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The North Bank supports other
ministries in conjunction with the
BGC, including a Christian radio
station. This radio ministry has
the potential of becoming an ef-fective
ministry because almost
everyone in India has a radio.
So if the association receives
financial assistance for the John
Firth School, more money could
be devoted to the radio ministry.
PAC is accepting monthly
pledges, large and small.
So far, PAC has received over
$400 in pledges.
Film forum offers
"Lonely Hunter"
as season's last
"The Heart is a Lonely
Hunter," starring Alan Arkin,
will be shown Monday at 7:30
p.m. in the AC lounge as the last
motion picture in this year's film
forum series.
Based on the novel by Carson
McCullers, the story involves a
deaf mute's life in a small southern
town. Judith Crist called it a film
of "tremendous emotional im-pact...
engrossing awl deeply mov-ing."
Attehdance at other films of the
series this year has averaged from
50 to 60, said Don Postema, assis-tant
professor of philosophy who
has led a discussion after each
film.
"I think people have seen that
film does more than just enter-tain,"
he said. "They have found
that it offers a lot of.insight and
provokes a lot of thought."
60 players here next year, judging
by the number known now.
Hockey fans are hoping that
some of the "five or six blue chip
players" currently on the "pro-spective"
list will choose to play at
Bethel. "They will really help us
out," noted Correll.
While most of the new
prospects are "from the Twin
Cities area," there are some
"from as far away a Edmonton,
Alberta."
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With a year of experience at
Bethel behind them, freshmen will
now have a chance to express their
concerns and opinions to mem-bers
of the administration and
faculty.
On April 18, Wednesday, at
9:30 p.m., Deans Marilyn Starr
and "Wink" Menser and others
will meet with freshmen in the sec-ond
floor lounge of the Nelson
residence.
Students will be able to ask
questions concerning housing,
lifestyle, academics and other
areas of college life.
"This will be an excellent time
for freshman students to get in
direct contact with the administra-tion,"
said senator Steve Penner,
who is helping to organize the
meeting.
Refreshments will be served.
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Andy Leong won in the recent Gopher State Karate Champion-ship.
Thinclads down Mac team
in first conference meet
IM out of bounds
IM playoffs find Nets in darkhorse role
by Rob Haglund
Some major surprises in the B
league basketball tournament and
some minor upsets in the A league
tourney highlighted last week's
IM action.
In B league, pre-tourney
favorites BMOC and the Swedish
Fly Girls both lost in the semi-finals
of the championship
bracket. The Big Men were rail-roaded
by the East-Bound Express
while the Fly Girls were edged by
the Glass Menagerie.
Both games were extremely
close and went right to the final
seconds. When the long-awaited
by Carol Madison
The women's track team finish-ed
the indoor season by placing
seventh out of 15 teams at the
Mankato Invitational, and fifth of
14 teams at the Duluth meet.
In the Mankato Invitational,
won by St. Olaf, five indoor
records were set. Denise Egge set
records in the 1500- and
800-meters, with times of 4:50.9
and 2:22.9
Her time in her fourth-place
1500-meter finish was fast enough
to qualify her for the regional
finals.
Deb Sension set a school record
in the high jump at 5-foot-1, and
the 4x160-meter relay team of
Sension, SheIli Rauma, JoAnn
Griffin, and Lynn Severson turn-ed
in a record time of 1:28.5.
Severson also ran the 300-meter
dash in a record 44.9.
School records were also set at
the Duluth Invitational. The
medley relay team and 4x1 lap
relay teams, comprised of Sen-sion,
Rauma, Griffin and Sever-son,
placed third and first with
records of 1:47.8 in the medley
and 1:28.5 in the 4x1.
Shellie Rauma's second-place
440-yard dash finish came in
record time at 1:03.2. Egge placed
second in the 880 at 2:22.2.
Sension's record time of 32.28
in the 220-yard hurdles earned se-cond
place, and Severson grabbed
third in the 200-yard dash, with a
school record, 28.26.
by Debbie Bunger
Unable to join the Minnesota
Twins in Florida for spring train-ing,
the Bethel Royals traveled to
Conway, Arkansas to ready them-selves
for the '79 baseball season.
The team is coached by Bob
Bjorklund, who is new on staff
this year. "He wants to make us a
strong, aggressive, offensive
team," stated Todd Johnson, first
baseman. "To do so, he worked
us hard to make sure we're in
clash between the two teams final-ly
arrived- in the consolation
bracket, BMOC forfeited because
of conflicts.
Meanwhile, in the champion-ship
bracket, the Express con-tinued
their winning ways with a
convincing 30-point win over the
Glass Menagerie. And so, at the
time of this writing, three teams
remain. My prediction is "the
chicks by the express, off glass."
In A league action Probes and
the Communicables advanced as
expected but the East Coast
Rockies were nipped by the Old
Men who got 15 points from Dan
Taylor and Mack Nettleton, and
"We had some good and bad
performances," said Coach
Shirley Dawson, "but we still
scored well. We had to pull Denise
Egge out of the mile because of an
injury, and had she run, her
points probably would have given
us a third place finish."
Tina Anderson and Ellie Abbot
Jim Anderson and Andy Leong
both received first place honors at
the recent Gopher State
KarateChampionships held in St.
Paul.
Freshman Anderson and
sophomore Leong with
sophomore Steve Culp compose a
three-man Bethel karate team that
entered the tournament that
hosted hundreds of karate com-petitors
from all over the midwest
region.
Anderson and Leong entered in
the katu competition. Katu is a
form of karate that is non-contact,
requiring grace, power,
speed and concentration.
Anderson, who has just recently
been promoted to green belt, took
the first place trophy in the white
belt division, even though he has
never competed prior to the
Gopher State Championships.
Leong, who has just been pro-shape."
Days began at 8 a.m. with a 21/2
mile run to a nearby school's
track, a couple laps, and then the
run back to the hotel for break-fast.
The rest of the morning and
much of the afternoon was spent
in practice.
"At night we were too tired to
do much," Johnson said. Team
devotions were held in the coach's
room with a different player lead-ing
each night.
Two days of exhibition games
the Chairman of the Boards
knocked off Vue A Val 48-43 with
the Kramka boys, Jon, Pete and
Steve combining for 23 points.
In other games, Mitch Bern-strom's
23 markers led the Infalli-ble
Trajectories to a 53-44 de-cision
over the Clippers and the
Nets, behind Scott Engstrom's
season high 24 points, dumped the
Quaz 64-51.
The Nets, alias, the Swisher
Sweets, have to be considered one
of the most exciting teams in A
league this year. They have been
involved in several close games
and with captain Jerry Black
directing the offense there is never
turned in personal bests in the 880
and 2-mile with times of 2:31.6
and 12:46, respectively.
The first outdoor meet is a
home coed meet at Mounds View
high school, tomorrow at 1 p.m.
The men will compete against
three teams and the women will go
against five.
moted to brown belt, took on a
small but highly competitive field
of participants to win first place in
the brown belt division. Leong
said that he was surprised that he
was able to win the trophy since he
has been a brown belt for less than
a month.
Culp placed fourth in brown
belt katu. A noted sparring com-petitor,
he was unable to par-ticipate
in his favorite event, point
sparring, because of wrist and
hand injuries.
These three, Leong, Anderson
and Culp, as well as several other
Bethel karate students, hope to
continue the winning trend in the
coming Duluth open karate tour-nament
on April 24.
'Instructor Terry Warner said he
is confident in his "Dragons" and
has worked hard to prepare his
students for competition.
e ends, as us
were played against Kent State.
Their team had been rained out of
Texas. "We fielded pretty well
considering the amount of time we
had practiced outside pre-viously,"
stated Johnson.
The team began practice March
3 but was confined to the gym be-cause
of the Minnesota weather.
The trip provided the first op-portunity
of the season for out-door
practice.
Although Arkansas was chosen
because of its dryness, unexpected
a dull moment.
With Scott Engstrom and Gor-dy
Dauchy hitting from the out-side
and Steve Brue scoring under-neath
the Nets have done surpris-ingly
well despite their obvious
lack of height.
Many observers say that with a
big man to compliment their out-
Bethel's track team took eight
first-places on its way to a 80-50
victory over Macalester in the
team's first conference meet of the
season.
Sophomore Greg Stipe led the
way with three firsts, winning the
pole vault, long jump and triple
jump.
Other firsts included Bruce
Case in the 60-yd. hurdles in 8.4
sec. Steve Carrigan won the shot
ual, in rain
rain plagued the players. Practice
continued in drizzles through Fri-day
but the trip was then cut short
because of the rain.
"It really helped going down,"
said Johnson, "but it hurts com-ing
back and being stuck in the
gym again."
The team will travel to North-western
College for a game on
Wednesday and then to Dordt for
a Thursday game providing that it
does not snow. The conference
opener will be April 11 at home
against St. Mary's.
side shooting the Nets would be
awesome. Even without one they
are a very good team and could be
considered the dark horse of the
tournament.
And with Russ Anderson
heating up (he scored six points
against the Quaz) who knows
what will happen.
put with a throw of 45' and Kevin
Walton took top honors in the
high jump with a leap of 5'10".
Paul Otto placed first with a time
of 6.65 sec. in the 60-yd. dash.
Mac sensation Paul Mausling
scored wins 'in three events, too.
He won the 880, mile, and 2 mile.
The Royal mile relay team fin-ished
first with a time of 3:42.8.
The relay team consists of Dave
Jorgensen, Mitch Johnson, Bob
Holt, and Bryan Galloway.
Randy Bostrom also ran well,
placing second in the mile and in
the 1000 yd. run.
Bethel swept three events, the
60-yd. hurdles, high jump, and
pole vault, mainly because Macal-ester
did not enter these events.
The Royal track team's next
meet is tomorrow at Mounds
View, the Bethel Co-ed Invita-tional.
. Arkansas Baseball practic
Indoor season ends, records set
Anderson, Leong win,
take Katu Karate firsts
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